Cities, autonomy and decentralization in Japan / / editors, Carola Hein, Philippe Pelletier.

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...

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Superior document:Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 7
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Place / Publishing House:New York : : Routledge,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 7.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 199 pages) :; illustrations
Notes:
  • Includes index.
  • "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."
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Table of Contents:
  • 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