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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge contemporary Japan seriesPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2006Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 199 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780203358498
  • 9781134341450
  • 9781134341498
  • 9781134341504
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 320.850952 C581
LOC classification:
  • JS7373.A3 C57 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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