Company Town

Japanese: カンパニー・タウン - かんぱにーたうん
Company Town

...Newly built housing estates are communities with weak blood ties and local ties. A town where one large company is located and most of the residents are somehow related to that company is called a company town, and this can be said to be a community with strong professional ties.
[Settlement size and distribution]
Because settlement size is closely related to population density and varies from country to country and region to region, attempts have been made by the International Working Group on Terminology of Rural Landscapes and by geographers of certain countries to group together a number of categories based on function and size from a global perspective.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "company towns" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…新しくできた住宅団地などは血縁関係も地縁関係も薄い集落である。一つの巨大な企業が立地し,ほとんどの住民がなんらかの形でその企業に関係があるような町をカンパニー・タウンcompany townと呼んでいるが,これは職縁関係の強い集落ということができる。
[集落の規模と分布]
 集落の規模は人口密度と密接な関係があり,また国や地域によって差異があるので,機能と規模について世界的視野からいくつかのカテゴリーにまとめようとする試みが,農村景観に関する国際用語作業部会や,特定の国の地理学者によってなされてきた。…

※「カンパニー・タウン」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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