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LEADER: 02137cam a22003378a 4500
001 2005020303
003 DLC
005 20100205082741.0
008 050718s2006 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005020303
020 $a0415326036 (hardback : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aJS7373.A3$bC57 2006
082 00 $a320.8/5/0952$222
245 00 $aCities, autonomy and decentralization in Japan /$cedited by Carola Hein and Philippe Pelletier.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bRoutledge,$c2006.
263 $a0602
300 $ap. cm.
440 0 $aRoutledge contemporary Japan series
500 $a"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: decentralization and the tension between global and local urban Japan / Carola Hein and Philippe Pelletier -- Local initiatives and the decentralization of planning power in Japan / Ishida Yorifusa -- Concentration and deconcentration in the context of the Tokyo capital region plan and recent cross-border networking concepts / Nakabayashi Itsuki -- Financial problems in the Japanese local public sector in the 1990s: situation, structural reasons, solutions / Alain Schebath -- Centralization, urban planning, governance, and citizen participation in Japan / André Sorensen -- Machizukuri in Japan: a historical perspective on participatory community-building initiatives / Watanabe Shunichi J. -- Whose Kyoto? Competing models of local autonomy and townscape in the old imperial capital / Christoph Brumann -- Conclusion: decentralization policies: questioning the Japanese model / Carola Hein and Philippe Pelletier.
650 0 $aDecentralization in government$zJapan.
650 0 $aCentral-local government relations$zJapan.
650 0 $aCity planning$zJapan.
700 1 $aHein, Carola.
700 1 $aPelletier, Philippe,$d1956-
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005020303.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0653/2005020303-d.html