TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hein,Carola
AU  - Pelletier,Philippe
TI  - Cities, autonomy and decentralization in Japan
T2  - Routledge contemporary Japan series
SN  - 9780203358498
AV  - JS7373.A3 C57 2006
U1  - 320.850952 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Decentralization in government
KW  - Japan
KW  - Central-local government relations
KW  - City planning
N1  - "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."; 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
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781134341504
ER  -