1st Edition
Urban Spaces in Japan Cultural and Social Perspectives
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
Biography
Christoph Brumann is Head of Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.
Evelyn Schulz is Full Professor for Japanese Studies at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
