HAGIWARA Hachirō

Abstract:

The lecturer published “A Comparative Study of Metropolitan Water Supply and Drainage Systems in Developed and Developing Countries－The Cases of Tokyo, Mexico City, Paris and São Paulo” in 1989.  In this paper, he examined the growing pace of population and the construction process of infrastructure in the respective cities. São Paulo city has invested insufficiently for the rapid growth of population, but this city has developed in its own particular system; São Paulo’s electric generating system based on the using of sewage is a good example that takes advantage of regional characteristics.

Dr. Hagiwara is a Professor at the Faculty of Management and Information Science, Department of Management and Information Science at the Shikoku University. His research interests are related to urban geography in Latin America, specially, the relationship between urban problems, water supply and drainage systems in cities in Brazil and in other countries where urbanization is progressing fastly.