Cities, autonomy and decentralization in Japan
By: edited by Carola Hein and Philippe Pelletier.
Contributors: Hein, Carola.; Pelletier, Philippe, 1956-
Series: Routledge contemporary Japan series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Decentralization in government -- Japan; Central-local government relations -- Japan; City planning -- Japan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."
Table of contents: title: Introduction: decentralization and the tension between global and local urban Japan / Carola Hein and Philippe Pelletier; title: Local initiatives and the decentralization of planning power in Japan / Ishida Yorifusa; title: Concentration and deconcentration in the context of the Tokyo capital region plan and recent cross-border networking concepts / Nakabayashi Itsuki; title: Financial problems in the Japanese local public sector in the 1990s: situation, structural reasons, solutions / Alain Schebath; title: Centralization, urban planning, governance, and citizen participation in Japan / André Sorensen; title: Machizukuri in Japan: a historical perspective on participatory community-building initiatives / Watanabe Shunichi J.; title: Whose Kyoto? Competing models of local autonomy and townscape in the old imperial capital / Christoph Brumann; title: Conclusion: decentralization policies: questioning the Japanese model / Carola Hein and Philippe Pelletier.