Japanese Machizukuri and Community Engagement by Shigeru Satoh - 9781032238890

Japanese Machizukuri and Community EngagementHistory, Method and Practice\nAuthor(s): Shigeru Satoh\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032238890, 978-1032238890\nSynopsis\nOver the past few decades, Japan has faced severe earthquake disasters, an increasing aging population, declining birth rates, and widening social disparities. These issues have served to highlight gaps left by top-down governance approaches and the urgent need to create resilient societies using more traditional models.\n\nJapanese machizukuri has developed to become an exceptional example of bottom-up creative approaches based on collective action and use of local resources. Since its evolution in the 1960s, machizukuri has come to define diverse and creative community-driven management models, by which local communities are enabled to actively tackle problem-solving. \n\nIncluding contributions from experts directly engaged in the process, th.