Living Cities in Japan: Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments (Nissan Institute Routledge Japanese Studies Series)

305 Pages·2007·2.46 MB·English

Living Cities in Japan
In recent years local citizens’ movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan.
Created with the aim of improving the quality of the local environment, and of
environmental management processes, such activities are widely referred to as
machizukuri, and represent an important development in local politics and urban
management in Japan.
This volume, originating in a session of the conference of the European
Association for Japanese Studies held in Warsaw in 2003, examines the growth
and nature of such civil society participation in local urban and environmental
governance, raising important questions about the changing roles of and rela-
tions between central and local government, and between citizens and the state,
in managing shared spaces. The machizukuri processes studied here can be seen
as the focus of an important emerging trend towards increased civic participa-
tion in managing processes of urban change in Japan. Studying Japanese
machizukuri also contributes to important contemporary debates about sustain-
ability and local governance. One of the great challenges of our time is to create
more livable and sustainable cities, that are economically vibrant, provide a high
quality of life and health for their residents, while reducing resource consump-
tion and waste production. Collaborative governance processes to create livable
places and communities are widely seen to be a key aspect of the solution, but
are not easily achieved in practice.
Living Cities in Japan provides a comprehensive overview of the
machizukuri phenomenon through examination not only of theory and history,
but also of case studies illustrating real changes in the institutions of place
making and neighborhood governance in Japan. This book will be of particular
value to readers interested in social, urban, geographical and environmental
studies.
Dr André Sorensen is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and
Programme in Planning at the University of Toronto.
Dr Carolin Funck is Associate Professor at Hiroshima University Graduate
School of Integrated Arts and Sciences.
In their study of machizukuri, Sorensen and Funck have achieved an exemplary
cross-cultural collaboration. For those wishing to understand the inner workings
of the Japanese culture of planning, this book is essential reading.
John Friedmann, University of British Columbia, Canada
This book is a fine contribution to the literature on urban governance and
citizens’ engagement with planning and development processes. It not only pro-
vides a critical insight into the rapid growth of citizens’ movements centred on
the quality of local living environments, but also sets detailed experiences in the
context of their historical evolution and the wider relations between the state,
economy and civil society in Japan.
Patsy Healey, University of Newcastle, UK
The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series
Editorial Board
J.A.A. Stockwin, formerly Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies and
former Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of
Oxford, Emeritus Fellow, St Antony’s College; Teigo Yoshida, formerly Profes-
sor of the University of Tokyo; Frank Langdon, Professor, Institute of Inter-
national Relations, University of British Columbia; Alan Rix, Executive Dean,
Faculty of Arts, The University of Queensland; Junji Banno, formerly Professor
of the University of Tokyo, now Professor, Chiba University; Leonard Schoppa,
Associate Professor, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, and
Director of the East Asia Center, University of Virginia.
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