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The Making of Urban Japan - Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century (Paperback)
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The Making of Urban Japan - Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century (Paperback)
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During the twentieth century Japan was transformed from a poor,
primarily rural country into one of the world's largest industrial
powers and most highly urbanized countries. Interestingly, while
Japanese governments and planners borrowed carefully from the
planning ideas and methods of many other countries, Japanese urban
planning, urban governance and cities developed very differently
from those of other developed countries. Japan's distinctive
patterns of urbanization are partly a product of the highly
developed urban system, urban traditions and material culture of
the pre-modern period, which remained influential until well after
the Pacific War. A second key influence has been the dominance of
central government in urban affairs, and its consistent
prioritization of economic growth over the public welfare or urban
quality of life. Andre Sorensen examines Japan's urban trajectory
from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, paying particular
attention to the weak development of Japanese civil society, local
governments, and land development and planning regulations.
This is the first book to comprehensively examine the phenomenon of
Japanese urbanization and planning, revealing both the many real
successes of Japanese urban management, and many of its resounding
failures. Japan's distinctiveness makes it an important case study
of urbanisation and its management, and helps to put into
perspective the major urban and regional planning issues faced by
the other developed countries, as well as sounding a timely warning
to the rapidly urbanizing countries of Asia.
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