Abstract
Tokyo has witnessed rapid growth and dramatic socio-economic transformation in the last half-century. The most remarkable changes in land use have taken place in suburban municipalities, where agricultural and natural land continue to be converted to residential and industrial uses, often without comprehensive planning. This chapter qualitatively explores land use changes in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area (TMA) by analyzing policies, discussing the institutional features, including flexibility and possible loopholes, and socio-economic context behind changes of land use. And, this chapter calls for an evolution of land use planning and land resource conservation system geared more toward adaptive and sustainable urbanization.
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This chapter is part of the M-NEX (m-nex.net) project, funded by a grant of the Sustainable Urban Global Initiative (SUGI): Food-Water-Energy Nexus by Belmont Forum and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). This research was also supported by the Ushioda Grant 2020 from Keio University and Taikichiro Mori Memorial Research Grants 2020. Follow-up studies are being funded by a JST Doctoral Grant in 2022.
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Zhang, R., Yan, W., Shaw, R. (2024). Land Use Planning and Conservation Policy in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. In: Yan, W., Galloway, W., Shaw, R. (eds) Resilient and Adaptive Tokyo. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3834-6_5
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