A Review of Recent Studies on 'Machinaka Living' and Their Implications for Residents of Ready-Built Single-Family Housing in Japan's Larger Cities. 2020. 168. 49-70
Kumano Takafumi. Location of Newly Built Dwellings and Changing Urban Structure in the Outer Suburban City of Osaka Metropolitan Area: Case Study of Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture. Japanese Journal of Human Geography. 2018. 70. 2. 193-214
Kumano Takafumi. Changes in Detached Housing Areas in the Suburbs of Osaka Metropolitan Area: A Case Study of Housing Areas Around Gakuenmae Station on the Kintetsu Railway Line. Japanese Journal of Human Geography. 2014. 66. 4. 352-368
MISC (2):
KUMANO Takafumi. Changes in Urban Structures Relating to Location of Housing Developments in Suburban Japanese Towns::A Case Study of Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture and an Osaka Suburb. ABSTRACTS of the Annual Meeting, The Human Geographical Society of Japan. 2017. 34-35
KUMANO Takafumi. Detached Housing Development in the Osaka Metropolitan Area after the Collapse of the Bubble Economy:Focusing on its built-up areas. Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers. 2016. 2016. 100059-100059
Lectures and oral presentations (8):
Multiscale Geographies of Shrinking Cities
(The 7th Joint-Workshop on East Asian Studies Kyoto University - City University of Hong Kong - Fudan University 2019)
Restructuring and Generational Transition in Japan's Metropolitan Suburbs
(The 6th Joint-Workshop on East Asian Studies Fudan University - Kyoto University - City University of Hong Kong 2018)
Location of housing development and changing urban structure in suburban Japanese city with declining population: Case study of Sakurai City, suburb of Osaka metropolitan area
(The 9th International Conference on Population Geographies 2017)