Carola Hein / Philippe Pelletier (eds.)

Cities, Autonomy, and Decentralization in Japan

Herausgeber: Hein, Carola; Pelletier, Philippe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780415326032
• ISBN-10: 0415326036
• Artikelnr.: 22603199

Autorenporträt

Carola Hein is Associate Professor in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr College, USA. Philippe Pelletier is Professor of Geography at Lumiere-Lyon 2 University, France.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Japan6. Machizukuri in
Japan 7. Whose Kyoto? Competing Models of Local Autonomy and Townscape in
the Old Imperial Capital 8. Conclusion: Decentralization Policies