Urban Spaces in Japan: Cultural and Social Perspectives

Front Cover
Urban Spaces in Japan
Copyright Page
Contents
List of illustrations
Contributors
1. Introduction: Christoph Brumann, Christian Dimmer and Evelyn Schulz
2. Urbanisation, city and city system in Japan between development and shrinking: coping with shrinking cities in times of demographic change: Winfried Flüchter
3. The colonial appropriation of public space: architecture and city planning in Japanese-dominated Manchuria: Anke Scherer
4. Re-uniting a divided city: high-rises, conflict and urban space in central Kyoto: Christoph Brumann
5. Re-imagining public space: the vicissitudes of Japan’s privately owned public spaces: Christian Dimmer
6. Citizen participation and urban development in Japan and Germany: issues and problems: Carolin Funck, Tsutomu Kawada and Yoshimichi Yui
7. Indifferent communities: neighbourhood associations, class and community  consciousness in pre-war Tokyo: Katja Schmidtpott
8. Who cares about the past in
today’s Tokyo?: Paul Waley
9. Gendered modes of appropriating
public space: Ingrid Getreuer-Kargl
10. Walking the city: spatial and temporal configurations of the urban spectator in writings on Tokyo: Evelyn Schulz
11. Shrinking cities and liveability in Japan: emerging relationships and challenges: André Sorensen
Index