Cities, autonomy and decentralization in Japan /
Cities, autonomy and decentralization in Japan /
edited by Carola Hein and Philippe Pelletier.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 199 pages)
- Routledge contemporary Japan series .
- Routledge contemporary Japan series. .
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."
Introduction: decentralization and the tension between global and local urban Japan / Carola Hein and Philippe Pelletier -- Local initiatives and the decentralization of planning power in Japan / Ishida Yorifusa -- Concentration and deconcentration in the context of the Tokyo capital region plan and recent cross-border networking concepts / Nakabayashi Itsuki -- Financial problems in the Japanese local public sector in the 1990s: situation, structural reasons, solutions / Alain Schebath -- Centralization, urban planning, governance, and citizen participation in Japan / Andre Sorensen -- Machizukuri in Japan: a historical perspective on participatory community-building initiatives / Watanabe Shunichi J. -- Whose Kyoto? Competing models of local autonomy and townscape in the old imperial capital / Christoph Brumann -- Conclusion: decentralization policies: questioning the Japanese model / Carola Hein and Philippe Pelletier.
9780203358498 9781134341450 9781134341498 9781134341504
10.4324/9780203358498 doi
Decentralization in government--Japan.
Central-local government relations--Japan.
City planning--Japan.
JS7373.A3 / C57 2006
320.850952 / C581
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."
Introduction: decentralization and the tension between global and local urban Japan / Carola Hein and Philippe Pelletier -- Local initiatives and the decentralization of planning power in Japan / Ishida Yorifusa -- Concentration and deconcentration in the context of the Tokyo capital region plan and recent cross-border networking concepts / Nakabayashi Itsuki -- Financial problems in the Japanese local public sector in the 1990s: situation, structural reasons, solutions / Alain Schebath -- Centralization, urban planning, governance, and citizen participation in Japan / Andre Sorensen -- Machizukuri in Japan: a historical perspective on participatory community-building initiatives / Watanabe Shunichi J. -- Whose Kyoto? Competing models of local autonomy and townscape in the old imperial capital / Christoph Brumann -- Conclusion: decentralization policies: questioning the Japanese model / Carola Hein and Philippe Pelletier.
9780203358498 9781134341450 9781134341498 9781134341504
10.4324/9780203358498 doi
Decentralization in government--Japan.
Central-local government relations--Japan.
City planning--Japan.
JS7373.A3 / C57 2006
320.850952 / C581