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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765818303321

Autore

Hein Carola

Titolo

Cities, autonomy, and decentralization in Japan / / edited by Carola Hein and Philippe Pelletier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2006

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2017

©2006

ISBN

9786610552900

9781134341498

1134341490

9781134341504

1134341504

9781280552908

1280552905

9780203358498

020335849X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 199 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Routledge contemporary Japan series ; ; 7.

Classificazione

HIS021000SOC000000SOC053000

Disciplina

307.760952

Soggetti

Sociology, Urban - Japan

Decentralization in government - Japan

Japan Economic conditions 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Decentralization and the tension between global and local urban Japan; 2 Local initiatives and the decentralization of planning power in Japan; 3 Concentration and deconcentration in the context of the Tokyo Capital Region Plan and recent cross-border networking concepts; 4 Financial stress in the Japanese local public sector in the 1990s: Situation, structural reasons, solutions

5 Centralization, urban planning governance, and citizen participation



in Japan; 6 Machizukuri in Japan: A historical perspective on participatory community-building initiatives; 7 Whose Kyoto?: Competing models of local autonomy and the townscape in the old imperial capital; 8 Conclusion: Decentralization policies - questioning the Japanese model; Select glossary of terms; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Adding a new perspective to the current literature on decentralization in Japan, Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan, approaches the subject from an urban studies and planning approach. The essays in the collection present a cogent compilation of case studies focusing on the past, present and future of decentralization in Japan. These include small scale development in the fields such as citizen participation (machizukuri), urban form and architecture, disaster prevention and conservation of monuments.The contributors suggest that new trends are emerging