Planning For Cities And Regions In Japan

Author : Philip Shapira,Ian Masser,David W. Edgington
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0853232482

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Planning for Cities and Regions in Japan by Philip Shapira,Ian Masser,David W. Edgington Pdf

This book brings together a series of contributions which examine the processes of contemporary city development and urban planning in Japan. A central theme of the book is to consider, from a range of perspectives and situations, the role, policies, methods, and effectiveness of planning in guiding city development in Japan and in addressing present and emerging urban issues. Areas of particular concern include inner city development, the urban periphery, the institutional and regulatory context of planning, and planning for urban and regional economic and technological change. In many instances, the book draws parallels between Japan's urban experience and planning approach with those of Europe and North America. Earlier versions of all but two of the chapters were published in issues of the Town Planning Review, but not only does the book have the value of bringing these contributions together in one volume, but it has also allowed the authors to revise and update their work and incorporate new developments. The editors have contributed a substantial, reflective introductory chapter and have also included a chronology of Japanese planning legislation and an annotated guide to selected English-language literature on Japanese urban and regional planning. While the main aim of the book is to provide a detailed interpretation of current urban planning issues and policies in Japan, the chapters also provide a foundation for understanding how Japanese city planning may evolve in the future.

Author : André Sorensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134736584

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The Making of Urban Japan by André Sorensen Pdf

During the twentieth century, Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into one of the world's largest industrial powers and most highly urbanised countries. Interestingly, while Japanese governments and planners borrowed carefully from the planning ideas and methods of many other countries, Japanese urban planning, urban governance and cities developed very differently from those of other developed countries. Japan's distinctive patterns of urbanisation are partly a product of the highly developed urban system, urban traditions and material culture of the pre-modern period, which remained influential until well after the Pacific War. A second key influence has been the dominance of central government in urban affairs, and its consistent prioritisation of economic growth over the public welfare or urban quality of life. André Sorensen examines Japan's urban trajectory from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, paying particular attention to the weak development of Japanese civil society, local governments, and land development and planning regulations.

Author : Carola Hein,Philippe Pelletier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134341504

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Cities, Autonomy, and Decentralization in Japan by Carola Hein,Philippe Pelletier Pdf

This book offers a cogent collection of case studies focusing on the history, present and future of decentralization in Japan.

Author : Chin Siong Ho
Publisher : Penerbit UTM
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9835202915

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An Introduction to Japanese City Planning by Chin Siong Ho Pdf

Author : Christoph Brumann,Evelyn Schulz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136318832

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Urban Spaces in Japan by Christoph Brumann,Evelyn Schulz Pdf

Urban Spaces in Japan explores the workings of power, money and the public interest in the planning and design of Japanese space. Through a set of vivid case studies of well-known Japanese cities including Tokyo, Kobe, and Kyoto, this book examines the potential of civil society in contemporary planning debates. Further, it addresses the implications of Japan's biggest social problem – the demographic decline – for Japanese cities, and demonstrates the serious challenges and exciting possibilities that result from the impending end of Japan's urban growth. Presenting a synthetic approach that reflects both the physical aspects and the social significance of urban spaces, this book scrutinizes the precise patterns of urban expansion and shrinkage. In doing so, it also summarizes current theories of public space, urban space, and the body in space which are relevant to both Japan and the wider international debate. With detailed case studies and more general reflections from a broad range of disciplines, this collection of essays demonstrates the value of cross-disciplinary cooperation. As such, it is of interest to students and scholars of geography and urban planning as well as history, anthropology and cultural studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : City planning
ISBN : UOM:39015033316624

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A Hundred Years of Tokyo City Planning by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pradyumna P. Karan,Kristin Stapleton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813159348

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The Japanese City by Pradyumna P. Karan,Kristin Stapleton Pdf

Japan is one of the most crowded countries on earth, with three-fourths of its population now living in cities. Tokyo is easily the most populous city on the planet. And yet, though closely packed, its citizens dwell together in relative peace. In America, inner-city violence -- often attributed in part to overcrowding -- is frequently emphasized as one of the great social problems of the day. What might we learn from Japan's situation that could be applied to our own as we approach the twenty-first century? In this collection an interdisciplinary group of international scholars seek to understand and explain the process and characteristics shaping the modern Japanese city. With frequent comparisons to the American city, they consider such topics as urban landscapes, the quality of life in the suburbs, spatial mixing of social classes in the city, land use planning and control, environmental pollution, and images of the city in Japanese literature. The only book on the subject, The Japanese City surveys the important literature and highlights the current issues in urban studies. The numerous photographs, maps, tables, and graphs, combined with the high quality of the contributions, offer a comprehensive look at the contemporary Japanese city. Contributors: William Burton, David L. Callies, Roman Cybriwsky, Kuniko Fujita, Theodore J. Gilman, Richard Child Hill, P.P. Karan, Robert Kidder, Cotton Mather, and Kohei Okamoto.

Author : Uzo Nishiyama
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351391030

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Reflections on Urban, Regional and National Space by Uzo Nishiyama Pdf

Nishiyama Uzō, educated as an architect between 1930 and 1933, was a key figure in Japanese urban planning. He was a prolific writer who influenced a whole generation of Japanese urban planners and his interpretations of foreign planning and local practice still influence Japanese planning theory and practice today. Nishiyama’s first publications date to the 1930s, and his last ones appeared in the 1990s, spanning a period of enormous political and spatial changes. The three articles translated here, originally published in the 1940s in professional magazines, show how Nishiyama developed his theoretical models based on a social approach to architecture and planning, focusing on land use and land control rather than aesthetic preferences. They provide insight into Nishiyama’s early thinking, his analysis of foreign examples, his reflection on large-scale regional and national spatial organization, and his architectural and urban visions, providing a remarkable and fascinating insight into the state of planning in Japan. These texts call scholarly attention to the writing of a global planning history and invite the reader to engage with a major figure in planning who is largely unknown outside Japan; to reconsider Japanese planning history; and to work towards a truly global planning history. How does Nishiyama compare to the great urban planners of the past in the West, such as Patrick Geddes, Lewis Mumford, or Werner Hegemann? Many more translations will be necessary to answer this question.

Author : Simon Gunn,Susan C. Townsend
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350075948

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Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan by Simon Gunn,Susan C. Townsend Pdf

Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is the first book to consider how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Britain during the 20th century. Taking two leading 'motor cities', Nagoya and Birmingham, as their principal subjects, Simon Gunn and Susan C. Townsend show how cars changed the spatial form and individual experience of the modern city and reveal the similarities and differences between Japan and Britain in adapting to the 'motor age'. The book has three main themes: the place of automobility in post-war urban reconstruction; the emerging conflict between the promise of mobility and personal freedom offered by the car and its consequences for the urban environment (the M/E dilemma); and the extent to which the Anglo-Japanese comparison can throw light on fundamental differences in cultural understanding of the environment, urbanism and the self. The result is the first comparative history of mass automobility and its environmental consequences between East and West.

Author : Kuniko Fujita,Richard Child Hill
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1566390346

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Japanese Cities by Kuniko Fujita,Richard Child Hill Pdf

Japan is the world's second most powerful economy and one of the most urbanized nations on earth. Yet English-language literature contains remarkable little about cities in Japan. This collection of original essays on Japanese urban and industrial development covers a broad spectrum of city experiences. Leading Japanese and Western urbanists analyze Japan's largest metropolitan areas (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya); proto-typical industrial cities (Kamaishi, Kitakyushu, Toyota); high technology urban satellites (Kanagawa); and smaller, more traditionally organized industrial districts (Tsubame). This book demonstrates how Japan's flexible economic growth strategies and changing relationship to the world economy have produced a uniquely Japanese pattern of urban development in this century. Throughout the essays that describe individual cities, contributors provide commentary on each city's twentieth-century history and functional relations with other cities and focus on the dynamic linkage between global relations and local activities. They examine the role of government—central, prefectural, and local—in the restructuring of Japanese industrial and urban life. One essay is devoted to the urbanization process in pre-World War II Japan; another considers urban planning on the western Pacific Rim. This is the first book that analyzes how the economic transformation of Japan has restructured Japanese cities and how urban and regional development policies have kept pace with (and in some ways effected) changes in the economy. This comprehensive study of Japanese cities provides interdisciplinary coverage of urban development issues of interest to the fields of economics, business, sociology, political science, history, Asian and Japanese studies, and urban planning.

Author : United Nations Centre for Regional Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Japan
ISBN : UIUC:30112069809884

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Japan by United Nations Centre for Regional Development Pdf

Author : André Sorensen,Carolin Funck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Citizens' associations
ISBN : 9780415547079

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Living Cities in Japan by André Sorensen,Carolin Funck Pdf

Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. This volume examines the growth and nature of civil society participation in local urban and environmental governance.

Author : Satsuki Mizoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89089984348

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City Planning Problems in America and Japan by Satsuki Mizoe Pdf

Author : Barrie Shelton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136732911

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Learning from the Japanese City by Barrie Shelton Pdf

Japanese cities are amongst the most intriguing and confounding anywhere. Their structures, patterns of building and broader visual characteristics defy conventional urban design theories, and the book explores why this is so. Like its cities, Japan’s written language is recognized as one of the most complicated, and the book is unique in revealing how the two are closely related. Set perceptively against a sweep of ideas drawn from history, geography, science, cultural and design theory, Learning from the Japanese City is a highly original exploration of contemporary urbanism that crosses disciplines, scales, time and space. This is a thoroughly revised and much extended version of a book that drew extensive praise in its first edition. Most parts have stood the test of time and remain. A few are replaced or removed; about a hundred figures appear for the first time. Most important is an entirely new (sixth) section. This brings together many of the urban characteristics, otherwise encountered in fragments through the book, in one walkable district of what is arguably Japan’s most convenient metropolis, Nagoya. The interplay between culture, built form and cities remains at the heart of this highly readable book, while a change in subtitle to Looking East in Urban Design reflects increased emphasis on real places and design implications.

Author : Kuniko Fujita
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439900925

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Japanese Cities by Kuniko Fujita Pdf

Japan is the world's second most powerful economy and one of the most urbanized nations on earth. Yet English-language literature contains remarkable little about cities in Japan. This collection of original essays on Japanese urban and industrial development covers a broad spectrum of city experiences. Leading Japanese and Western urbanists analyze Japan's largest metropolitan areas (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya); proto-typical industrial cities (Kamaishi, Kitakyushu, Toyota); high technology urban satellites (Kanagawa); and smaller, more traditionally organized industrial districts (Tsubame). This book demonstrates how Japan's flexible economic growth strategies and changing relationship to the world economy have produced a uniquely Japanese pattern of urban development in this century. Throughout the essays that describe individual cities, contributors provide commentary on each city's twentieth-century history and functional relations with other cities and focus on the dynamic linkage between global relations and local activities. They examine the role of government—central, prefectural, and local—in the restructuring of Japanese industrial and urban life. One essay is devoted to the urbanization process in pre-World War II Japan; another considers urban planning on the western Pacific Rim. This is the first book that analyzes how the economic transformation of Japan has restructured Japanese cities and how urban and regional development policies have kept pace with (and in some ways effected) changes in the economy. This comprehensive study of Japanese cities provides interdisciplinary coverage of urban development issues of interest to the fields of economics, business, sociology, political science, history, Asian and Japanese studies, and urban planning.