During the 21st century Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into the world's largest industrial power and one of the most highly urbanized countries in the world. Interestingly, whilst Japanese governments and planners borrowed from western planning ideas and methods - for instance, industrial processes and technologies - Japanese urban planning, urban governance and cities developed very differently from those of other developed countries.
During the 21st century Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into the world's largest industrial power and one of the most highl...
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...
Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. Created with the aim of improving the quality of the...
