Overview
- Presents a detailed explanation of policy, law, and urban planning methods
- Includes numerous case studies that clearly illustrate the problems and changes in Japanese society
- Provides information for academics and the public at large, including background, case studies, and solution strategies
Part of the book series: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences (AGES)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Housing Market, Urbanization, and Housing Vacancies in Japan
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Case Studies
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Measures for Revitalizing Cities
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About this book
This book explores how Japanese cities have transformed since the 1950s by describing housing and urban planning policies, urbanization processes, and maps with GIS analysis. It also discusses how housing vacancies have increased in shrinking Japanese cities, with case studies in Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, and Utsunomiya, and examines public–private partnerships and civil engagement to revitalize cities. Providing examples of how Japanese cities have addressed the issues of aging populations and urban shrinkage, it contributes to better decision-making by politicians, planners, local authorities, NPOs, and local communities in many rapidly urbanizing and potentially aging regions such as Asia.
In the era of urban shrinkage, Japanese cities have struggled with aging populations, low fertility, population loss, and a decline in the economic base over decades. In particular, shrinkage in metropolitan suburbs and large cities (e.g., sites of prefectural government with 300 000–400 000 inhabitants) has caused serious social problems owing to the huge aging population and large areas covered. One typical problem that has emerged is an increase in vacancies in now empty and abandoned housing.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tomoko Kubo is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences of the University of Tsukuba, Japan. She is an urban geographer working in the field of housing studies. She is currently the Chair of the Urban Geography Commission’s Young Scholar (YS) Committee of the International Geographical Union (IGU) after winning its 2012 YS Paper competition, and a board member of the Research Committee on Housing and the Built Environment (RC43) of the International Sociological Association (ISA). Her research interests include urbanization and the housing market, urban and housing policy, residential choices under socioeconomic changes, single women’s homeownership, shrinking cities and their revitalization, and aging suburbs in Japan.
Yoshimichi Yui is a Professor at the Graduate School of Education of Hiroshima University, Japan. He is currently a board member of the UNESCO Associated School Project University Network. His research interests include housing studies in geography, urban geography, aging, town planning, welfare, gender, childcare, revitalizing housing estates, and geography education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Rise in Vacant Housing in Post-growth Japan
Book Subtitle: Housing Market, Urban Policy, and Revitalizing Aging Cities
Editors: Tomoko Kubo, Yoshimichi Yui
Series Title: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7920-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7919-2Published: 16 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7922-2Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-7920-8Published: 27 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2198-3542
Series E-ISSN: 2198-3550
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 175
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Human Geography, Urban Economics, Economic Geography, Urban Studies/Sociology