The rise in vacant housing in post-growth Japan : housing market, urban policy, and revitalizing aging cities
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The rise in vacant housing in post-growth Japan : housing market, urban policy, and revitalizing aging cities
(Advances in geographical and environmental sciences / series editor, R.B. Singh)
Springer, c2020
Available at 13 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Preface (Yui and Kubo)PART ONE: Housing market, urbanization, and housing vacancies in Japan
1. Why the rise in urban housing vacancies oc-curred and matters in Japan (Kubo and Mashita)
2. Mapping the problems of housing vacancies in Japan (Wakabayashi)
3. Changes in essential facilities of housing estates in an aging society: the failure of city planning in Japan (Yui)
PART TWO: CASE STUDIES
4. Geodemographic characteristics of vacant houses in the resale condominium market in the Kansai metropolitan area (Kamimura, Uesugi, and Yano)
5. The decline in price of suburban secondhand hosuing in Hiroshima city (Yui)
6. Distribution of vacant homes in Tama city in the Tokyo metropolitan area: estimation using GIS and small area statistics (Miyazawa)
7. Urban abandonment and housing vacancies in Japanese local cities: a case of Kyo-machiya, traditional wooden town houses (Yano)
8. A problem of vacant housing in local cities: Utsunomiya city, Tochigi prefecture case study (Nishiyama)
PART THREE: Measures for revitalizing cities
9. Revitalizing old houses "Kominka" by private real estate agencies (Nishiyama)
10. Local responses to a rise in housing vacancies in the Nagoya suburbs (Kubo and Otsuka)
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