This paper studies the contemporary attempts of Japanese Machizukuri,Citizens Collaborative Community Improvement and Management,and their socio-cultural meanings in order to shed light on the sustainable planning app...This paper studies the contemporary attempts of Japanese Machizukuri,Citizens Collaborative Community Improvement and Management,and their socio-cultural meanings in order to shed light on the sustainable planning approaches dealing with population ageing and decreasing.In recent years,as response measures for non-physical local issues such as environmental problems and welfare,and with the aim of further enhancing community-centred planning capabilities against a background of decentralisation in various fields and the establishment of civic society,new cooperative/collaborative-style planning theory is being deployed.Through this process,community improvement and management is becoming deeper,in terms of technology,systems,and technique.The study attempts to find out a solution to real-world problems-how to construct a comprehensive planning theory based on spatial and social challenges arising in modern civic communities,with local resources,social capital and systems that have resulted from such issues.It also seeks to show how to achieve a vision for the city as a whole by mutually compiling individual community improvement and management scenarios and programs,based on the autonomous determination and future vision of the organisations and residents that play leading roles in the community.展开更多
This paper examines Japanese past from the beginning of the Meiji era until today in a historical perspective in order to make easier to understand from a post-Western/non-Western approach the processes that took plac...This paper examines Japanese past from the beginning of the Meiji era until today in a historical perspective in order to make easier to understand from a post-Western/non-Western approach the processes that took place in this period of time.Initially,Japan began to adopt Western ideologies,technologies and systems to build a modern nation and to make the development of modern architecture and city planning possible.These models continued to be looked at for a long time.From the 1970s,when the years of sustained economic growth came to an end,Japanese began to dismiss the idea of reaching and overtaking the West gradually.They began to search for a Japanese identity.The richness of nature,the particular Japanese history and its specific culture developed through delicate senses were re-evaluated.At the same time,the cultural values of the historic urban space and townscape were rediscovered.Finally,the paper examines the idea and method of Machizukuri(bottom-up town-making)originated and developed thanks to the physical and social resources historically accumulated in the Japanese cities.展开更多
文摘This paper studies the contemporary attempts of Japanese Machizukuri,Citizens Collaborative Community Improvement and Management,and their socio-cultural meanings in order to shed light on the sustainable planning approaches dealing with population ageing and decreasing.In recent years,as response measures for non-physical local issues such as environmental problems and welfare,and with the aim of further enhancing community-centred planning capabilities against a background of decentralisation in various fields and the establishment of civic society,new cooperative/collaborative-style planning theory is being deployed.Through this process,community improvement and management is becoming deeper,in terms of technology,systems,and technique.The study attempts to find out a solution to real-world problems-how to construct a comprehensive planning theory based on spatial and social challenges arising in modern civic communities,with local resources,social capital and systems that have resulted from such issues.It also seeks to show how to achieve a vision for the city as a whole by mutually compiling individual community improvement and management scenarios and programs,based on the autonomous determination and future vision of the organisations and residents that play leading roles in the community.
文摘This paper examines Japanese past from the beginning of the Meiji era until today in a historical perspective in order to make easier to understand from a post-Western/non-Western approach the processes that took place in this period of time.Initially,Japan began to adopt Western ideologies,technologies and systems to build a modern nation and to make the development of modern architecture and city planning possible.These models continued to be looked at for a long time.From the 1970s,when the years of sustained economic growth came to an end,Japanese began to dismiss the idea of reaching and overtaking the West gradually.They began to search for a Japanese identity.The richness of nature,the particular Japanese history and its specific culture developed through delicate senses were re-evaluated.At the same time,the cultural values of the historic urban space and townscape were rediscovered.Finally,the paper examines the idea and method of Machizukuri(bottom-up town-making)originated and developed thanks to the physical and social resources historically accumulated in the Japanese cities.
