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This informative monograph focuses on the city of Toyota, located
in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Aside from the fact that most Toyota
passenger vehicles are produced there, generally little is known
about its reality. Since the 1960s, the city has continuously
attracted numerous jobseekers from distant rural areas. Owing to
years of stable employment and settlement within local communities,
once-new workers gradually build strong ties with their neighbours
and actively participate in residential activities. This pattern of
settlement provides a unique example of long-prosperous industrial
cities, which deserves discussion against a backdrop of the
present “de-industrializing” urban economies.
Unfortunately, this favourable situation is now changing, despite
the regional economy’s steady recovery from the 2008 financial
crisis. Addressing this paradox is the main focus of the present
book. The upgrading of the Toyota Production System and concomitant
widening class disparity are damaging local ties under severe
pressure from global competition. Other suppressing factors are
driven by sociological conditions, such as aging, declining
marriage rates and birth rates. By comparing two sets of survey
data, from 2009 and 2015, and performing fieldwork research in two
communities that once were “new towns”, the book seeks to
provide an understanding of the present situation of this unusual
industrial city. At the same time, a unique theoretical perspective
is revealed that does not fit the mould of either the Chicago
School or the new urban sociology.
This book highlights recent advances in quantum control
technologies with regard to hybrid quantum systems. It addresses
the following topics: phonon engineering based on phononic
crystals, carbon-based nano materials like graphene and nanotubes,
Terahertz light technology for single-molecule and quantum dots,
nuclear-spin-based metrology for semiconductor quantum systems,
quantum anomalous Hall effect in magnetic topological insulators,
chiral three-dimensional photonic crystals, and bio-inspired
magnonic systems. Each topic, as a component in the framework of
hybrid quantum systems, is concisely presented by experts at the
forefront of the field. Accordingly, the book offers a valuable
asset, and will help readers find advanced technologies and
materials suitable for their purposes.
This informative monograph focuses on the city of Toyota, located
in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Aside from the fact that most Toyota
passenger vehicles are produced there, generally little is known
about its reality. Since the 1960s, the city has continuously
attracted numerous jobseekers from distant rural areas. Owing to
years of stable employment and settlement within local communities,
once-new workers gradually build strong ties with their neighbours
and actively participate in residential activities. This pattern of
settlement provides a unique example of long-prosperous industrial
cities, which deserves discussion against a backdrop of the present
"de-industrializing" urban economies. Unfortunately, this
favourable situation is now changing, despite the regional
economy's steady recovery from the 2008 financial crisis.
Addressing this paradox is the main focus of the present book. The
upgrading of the Toyota Production System and concomitant widening
class disparity are damaging local ties under severe pressure from
global competition. Other suppressing factors are driven by
sociological conditions, such as aging, declining marriage rates
and birth rates. By comparing two sets of survey data, from 2009
and 2015, and performing fieldwork research in two communities that
once were "new towns", the book seeks to provide an understanding
of the present situation of this unusual industrial city. At the
same time, a unique theoretical perspective is revealed that does
not fit the mould of either the Chicago School or the new urban
sociology.
This book highlights recent advances in quantum control
technologies with regard to hybrid quantum systems. It addresses
the following topics: phonon engineering based on phononic
crystals, carbon-based nano materials like graphene and nanotubes,
Terahertz light technology for single-molecule and quantum dots,
nuclear-spin-based metrology for semiconductor quantum systems,
quantum anomalous Hall effect in magnetic topological insulators,
chiral three-dimensional photonic crystals, and bio-inspired
magnonic systems. Each topic, as a component in the framework of
hybrid quantum systems, is concisely presented by experts at the
forefront of the field. Accordingly, the book offers a valuable
asset, and will help readers find advanced technologies and
materials suitable for their purposes.
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