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Author Satoh, Shigeru

Title Japanese Machizukuri and Community Engagement : History, Method and Practice
Published Milton : Routledge, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (271 pages)
Series Planning, Heritage and Sustainability Ser
Planning, Heritage and Sustainability Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on contributors -- Part I: History and Method of Machizukuri -- Chapter 1: Introduction to machizukuri -- What does machizukuri mean? -- The discovery of machizukuri -- Contemporary machizukuri practice -- Definition and redefinition of machizukuri -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Brief history of machizukuri in three regions in East Asia -- Introduction -- The pioneering period -- The model formation period -- The generalization period
Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: The first generation: The emergence of machizukuri -- Introduction -- From protest movements to machizukuri: Mano district as a touchstone for machizukuri practice -- The start of machizukuri in Mano (1965-70): protests against pollution -- The second period of machizukuri in Mano (1971-78): transition towards a machizukuri plan and design, policy, and exploration -- The third period of machizukuri in Mano (1978-85): machizukuri plans and legal assessment -- The fourth period of machizukuri in Mano (1985- ): the gradual progress of machizukuri projects
The three principles established by the Mano machizukuri process -- Evaluations of the Mano machizukuri process -- Subsequent machizukuri in Kobe city -- Improvements in neglected high-density built-up wooden areas as an anti-disaster solution: examples in Tokyo -- Efforts towards machizukuri by Minobe's reformist Tokyo Metropolitan Government -- Groping for ways toward machizukuri: the case of the Setagaya ward -- Machizukuri for the improvemnt of living environments in high-density built-up wooden areas: the case of Kyojima district in the Sumida Ward, Tokyo
Machizukuri aiming at the protection of living environments -- "Right to sunlight" campaigns against "building kougai" -- Movement towards the conservation of traditional culture -- Protection of historical townscapes -- Chapter conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: The second generation: Participation, collaboration, and co-creation -- Introduction -- Looking for a more touching form of participation -- New wave for disaster machizukuri: accumulation of small local actions in Ichitera-Kototoi -- Disaster prevention efforts in living districts -- "there's no need to escape" machizukuri
The limits of machizukuri in the Ichitera-Kototoi district -- Machizukuri conducted by residents for the improvement of local lifestyles: measures taken in Taishido -- Accumulation of experiences in anti- disastermachizukuri -- "Machinami" townscape machizukuri -- Machizukuri through workshops -- Chapter conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: The third generation: Aiming at open area management -- Introduction -- The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake -- Lessons from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake reconstruction process: pre-disaster reconstruction machizukuri
Summary "Over the past few decades, Japan has faced severe earthquake disasters, an increasing ageing population, declining birth rates and widening social disparities. These issues have served to highlight gaps left by top-down governance approaches and the urgent need to create resilient societies using more traditional models"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Preparation system to promote machizukuri as a series of linked projects
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Subject Community development -- Japan
City planning -- Japan -- Citizen participation
Urban policy -- Japan -- Citizen participation
City planning -- Citizen participation.
City planning -- Citizen participation
Community development
Urban policy -- Citizen participation
Japan
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429510526
0429510527
9780429513954
042951395X
9780429517389
0429517386
9780429201851
0429201850