Cities are key in climate mitigation and adaptation, and they have developed into sites of
innovative urban climate governance that can spur on climate action. Building on this …

Since the launch of LA 21 in 1992, local governments in many countries have been seeking
to improve sustainability. Various studies have been conducted in the past two decades. A …

This volume examines the changing roles of citizens' participation in local environmental
management and governance in Japan. A variety of processes for citizen engagement in …

2018 IPHS Special Book Prize Award Recipient The Routledge Handbook of Planning
History offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of planning history since its …

During the past decade, Tokyo has seen a massive building boom, despite a prolonged
economic slump since 1990. Since the 1980s, central government has enacted a steady …

Despite Tokyo's size and position in the global urban system, studies of its employment
distribution have been few. This research identified the locations and ranks of the …

This article contributes to the understanding of institutional change in urban governance
through an analysis of ongoing conflicts over the regulation of development in Japanese …

Most households in Japan are a member of their neighborhood association (NHA).
Japanese NHAs function as basic organizational building blocks that promote a sense of …

This paper examines the challenges posed by giant polycentric city-regions from the
perspective of an analysis of the Tokaido Megalopolis, the first case of this urban scale in …

The focus of this paper is the strategies of civic actors in a central Tokyo neighborhood to
claim a voice in managing changes to their community and creating shared meanings for …