Urban spaces in Japan : cultural and social perspectives

Urban spaces in Japan : cultural and social perspectives / edited by Christoph Brumann and Evelyn Schulz.

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 plan...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brumann, Christoph, Schulz, Evelyn, 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.
Series:Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series.
Subjects:
Public spaces > Japan.
City planning > Japan.
Urbanization > Japan.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Regional Planning.
City planning
Public spaces
Urbanization
Stadt
Stadtplanung
Verstädterung
Öffentlicher Raum
Stadtentwicklung
Espaces publics > Japon.
Design urbain > Japon.
Urbanisation > Japon.
Japan
Japan.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Urban Spaces in Japan; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Contributors; 1. Introduction: Christoph Brumann, Christian Dimmer and Evelyn Schulz; 2. Urbanisation, city and city system in Japan between development and shrinking: coping with shrinking cities in times of demographic change: Winfried Flüchter; 3. The colonial appropriation of public space: architecture and city planning in Japanese-dominated Manchuria: Anke Scherer; 4. Re-uniting a divided city: high-rises, conflict and urban space in central Kyoto: Christoph Brumann.
  • 5. Re-imagining public space: the vicissitudes of Japan's privately owned public spaces: Christian Dimmer6. Citizen participation and urban development in Japan and Germany: issues and problems: Carolin Funck, Tsutomu Kawada and Yoshimichi Yui; 7. Indifferent communities: neighbourhood associations, class and community consciousness in pre-war Tokyo: Katja Schmidtpott; 8. Who cares about the past intoday's Tokyo?: Paul Waley; 9. Gendered modes of appropriatingpublic space: Ingrid Getreuer-Kargl.
  • 10. Walking the city: spatial and temporal configurations of the urban spectator in writings on Tokyo: Evelyn Schulz11. Shrinking cities and liveability in Japan: emerging relationships and challenges: André Sorensen; Index.

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