Cities, autonomy and decentralization in Japan / 
edited by Carola Hein and Philippe Pelletier. 
 - 1 online resource (xvi, 199 pages) 
 - Routledge contemporary Japan series .
 - Routledge contemporary Japan series. .
<br/><br/> "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada." 
<br/><br/>Introduction: decentralization and the tension between global and local urban Japan / Carola Hein and Philippe Pelletier Local initiatives and the decentralization of planning power in Japan / Ishida Yorifusa Concentration and deconcentration in the context of the Tokyo capital region plan and recent cross-border networking concepts / Nakabayashi Itsuki Financial problems in the Japanese local public sector in the 1990s: situation, structural reasons, solutions / Alain Schebath Centralization, urban planning, governance, and citizen participation in Japan / Andre Sorensen Machizukuri in Japan: a historical perspective on participatory community-building initiatives / Watanabe Shunichi J. Whose Kyoto? Competing models of local autonomy and townscape in the old imperial capital / Christoph Brumann Conclusion: decentralization policies: questioning the Japanese model / Carola Hein and Philippe Pelletier. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780203358498 9781134341450 9781134341498 9781134341504 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.4324/9780203358498   doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Decentralization in government--Japan.<br/>Central-local government relations--Japan.<br/>City planning--Japan.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JS7373.A3  / C57 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.850952  / C581