Hymnes

2015 · 6987 — Sendai Japan: Tohoku University Press 2015. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover 258 pages NOT ex-library. Minor handling wear frayed end of the ribbon page marker. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text free of inscriptions and stamps firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: 1 Perspectives on the Post-Growth City / Michael Pacione; 2 Geographical Shrinking of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area: Its Demographic and Residential Background / Takashi Abe; 3 Urban Shrinkage of the Keihanshin Metropolitan Area in Japan: Changes in Population Distribution and Commuting Flows / Tatsuya Yamagami; 4 Occupational Structure in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area 1985-2005: An Extended Shift-share Analysis of Changing Geographic Patterns / Ryo Koizumi; 5 Time Budgets of Working Mothers Living in Central Tokyo: An Analysis on the Impacts of the Internet / Naoto Yabe; 6 Aged Society in a Suburban New Town: What Should We Do / Takashi Kagawa; 7 Urban Policy Challenges Facing an Aging Society: Case of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area / Tetsuya Ito; 8 Aging Suburbs and Increasing Vacant Houses in Japan / Tomoko Kubo; 9 Gentrification in a Post-Growth Society: The Case of Fukushima Ward Osaka / Yoshihiro Fujitsuka; 10 Spatial Characteristics of Land Evaluation in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area after the Great East Japan Earthquake / Hirohisa Yamada; 11 Image of the Post-Growth City: Recent Transformation of Japanese Regional Central Cities / Masateru Hino; 12 Characteristics of Office Location in Sapporo City Japan / Jun Tsutsumi; 13 Spatial Government Systems of Newly Merged Municipalities and Population Changes within Municipalities Impacted by those Government Systems: Under a National Pro-merger Policy of Municipalities in Post-Growth Societies / Jun Nishihara; 14 Knowledge Spillover Effects on Agglomerations of Environment-related Industries: A Case in Japan / Jun Yamashita; 15 Conclusion; Index -- This book is a collection of articles monitoring urbanization processes in Japanese cities since the 1990s. Two major aspects are notable with respect to the study of urbanization globally. First this book examines the depopulation population decline phase of cities whereas most previous discussions of urbanization eg the Klaassen model for urbanization in developed countries have explicitly or implicitly focused on population increase. Because the number of births has fallen below the number of deaths since 2005 a natural decrease of population is common throughout Japan. In this depopulation phase even though the overall urban population will remain relatively stable Japanese cities will undergo radical changes as compared to when an increasing population was the dominant trend. Because Japanese cities have only relatively recently begun experiencing these types of structural changes the studies presented herein are new and will provide a different paradigm of urban studies. Second this book focuses on the 'shrinking city' phenomenon which has become a key issue in recent urban studies. Since the 1980s in developed countries shrinking cities have dominated in some areas. In many eastern European countries remarkable shrinkage has occurred as a result of social structural changes causing serious problems and increasing the attention being paid to the relationship between globalization and shrinking cities. In the field of urban planning the problem of shrinking cities has become an urgent issue under the threat of depopulation. This has resulted in the need for modification of previous planning because most plans were based on a growing population. In this context the concept of the compact city has been proposed and especially in the field of urban planning widely accepted. The shrinking city trend is also found in Japan and it is not temporary or unique to one area. Japan's struggle to maintain sustainable development under a depopulation trend is an important challenge. In this sense monitoring the urbanization processes in Japanese cities will be very informative. <br/> <br/> Tohoku University Press hardcover