The Making of Urban Japan

This is the first book to comprehensively examine the phenomenon of Japanese city planning. Japan is one of the world's most urbanized countries, with its own traditions of urban management that are remarkably little known in the rest of the world.

André Sorensen

1. The Legacy of the Tokugawa Period 2. The Meiji Period: Establishing Modern Traditions 3. Taishô Period Urbanization and the Development of the 1919 Planning System 4. Japan's First Urban Planning System 5. Post-war Reconstruction and Rapid Economic Growth 6. Environmental Crisis and the New City Planning System of 1968 7. Implementing the New City Planning System 8. From Planning Deregulation to the Bubble Economy 9. The Era of Local Rights: Master Plans, Machizukuri and Historical Preservation 10. Japanese Urbanization and Planning