Over the last fifteen 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 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 relations
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 toward
increased civic participation in managing processes of urban change
in Japan. The contributors provide a comprehensive overview of the
machizukuri phenomenon through examination not only of theory and
history, butalso of case studies illustrating real changes in the
institutions of place making and neighbourhood governance.
Living Cities in Japan will be of particular value to readers
interested in social, urban, geographical and environmental
studies.
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