Japanese Cities in the World Economy

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Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction 1. Japanese Cities in the World Economy Richard Child Hill and Kuniko Fujita 2. Urban Growth in Prewar Japan Hachiro Nakamura Part II: World City Formation 3. Japan's World Cities: Osaka and Tokyo Compared Kenichi Miyamoto 4. The New Tokyo Story: Restructuring Space and the Struggle for Place in a World City Mike Douglass 5. Kanagawa: Japan's Brain Center Mamoru Obayashi 6. Restructuring Urban-Industrial Links in Greater Tokyo: Small Producers' Responses to Changing World Markets Tadao Kiyonari Part III: Global-Local Links 7. Nagoya: The Core of Japan's Global Manufacturing Industries Yasuo Miyakawa 8. Toyota City: Industrial Organization and the Local State in Japan Kuniko Fujita and Richard Child Hill Part IV: Declining Industrial Cities and Policy Responses 9. The Declining Steel Town and Its Renaissance: The Case of Kamaishi Masatoshi Yorimitsu 10. Steel Town to Space World: Restructuring and Adjustment in Kitakyushu City Philip Shapira Part V: Japan and the World 11. Reshaping Western Pacific Rim Cities: Exporting Japanese Planning Ideas Peter J. Rimmer 12. Global Interdependence and Urban Restructuring in Japan Richard Child Hill and Kuniko Fujita About the Contributors Index