Cities, Autonomy, and Decentralization in Japan /

Cities, Autonomy, and Decentralization in Japan / / Philippe Pelletier, Carola Hein.

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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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VerfasserIn:
Pelletier, Philippe,
Hein, Carola,
TeilnehmendeR:
Hein, Carola,
Place / Publishing House:[Place of publication not identified] : : Taylor & Francis,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 4. Financial Problems in the Japanese Local Public Sector in the 1990s
  • 5. Centralization, Urban Planning, Governance, and Citizen Participation in Japan
  • 6. Machizukuri in Japan
  • 7. Whose Kyoto? Competing Models of Local Autonomy and Townscape in the Old Imperial Capital
  • 8. Conclusion: Decentralization Policies.

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