A01=Andre Sorensen
Author_Andre Sorensen
Building Line System
Building Standards Law
Castle Towns
Category=GTM
Category=JP
Central Government
city
City Planning Law
City Planning System
Civil Society
Development Permit System
District Planning System
economic growth policy
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historical urbanism
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Home Ministry
japanese
Japanese city planning evolution
Japanese Urban Planning
Japanese Urbanisation
Land Readjustment
land use regulation
law
LDP
LR Project
Machizukuri Ordinances
meiji
Meiji Period
MITI
municipal autonomy
period
planning
Post-war
Rapid Growth Period
Samurai Area
spatial planning
system
Tokugawa Period
Toshi Keikaku
Urban Buildings Laws
urban governance
urbanisation
West Germany
Product details
- ISBN 9780415226516
- Weight: 910g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 urbanised 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 urbanisation 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 prioritisation of economic growth over the public welfare or urban quality of life. André 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.
