Town Revitalization Research Articles

The Gyoza Era and Memories of Manchuria: Post-Imperialism in Japan After World War II

ABSTRACT References to gyoza appear in Japanese literature from the late seventeenth century, with Shimazu Shigehide, lord of the Satsuma domain, recognized as the first recorded person to have consumed gyoza in Japan. The term “gyoza,” pronounced differently from modern Chinese, is believed to have originated from the Japanese who encountered the Shandong Province dialect, prevalent among immigrants in Manchuria, namely, Northeast China. After World War II, gyoza not only invoked nostalgia among repatriates, aiding in emotional recovery from wartime defeat, but also gained widespread popularity as an economical, flavorful, and nutritious dish. However, individual memories of gyoza varied significantly based on the perspectives of the former Japanese Empire’s influence in Manchuria and China’s decolonization under the Communist regime. Many long-established gyoza establishments that are still operational have connections with repatriates from Manchuria. The association with Manchuria was prominently emphasized when gyoza was utilized for town revitalization.

Tourism Object Development Policy in the Old City of Semarang

The tourism potential of the Old Semarang City Area, a historic area, has a diversity of cultural heritage from the Dutch colonial community and buildings that are still standing firmly today, including the GPIB Immanuel Church ( Blenduk Church), Tawang Station, Berok Bridge, Marabunta Building, factory building. This area used to be the place where the Dutch, Chinese and other Europeans lived, whose main activities were traders. The tourism sector is one of the strategic and mainstay sectors of the City of Semarang as a driving force for the improvement of the people's economy which contributes to regional original income. The purpose of this research is to describe and analyze the development policy of tourism objects in the Old Semarang City? (2) Factors that support and inhibit the policy of developing tourism objects in the Old Semarang City area? This study uses a qualitative method. The data analysis technique used is data reduction, data presentation and conclusion. The results of this study are: (1) The implementation of developing tourism in the city of Semarang has been going well but not optimal, this is manifested in increasing the appreciation of traditional arts and culture to improve people's welfare. (2) Supporting factors in the development of the Semarang Old Town area are the existence of a clear legal umbrella, namely Regional Regulation No. 8 of 2003 concerning RTBL of the Old City of Semarang, relationships between organizations that work well with each other and budgetary sources that support implementing the Semarang Old Town revitalization policy. Factors that become obstacles include social problems from the community around the Old Town of Semarang who refuse the revitalization process, as well as private building ownership, where the owner is still reluctant to cooperate with BPK2L to maintain the building. And the Inhibiting Factors in the management of the old City Area, the participation of the community accommodated in the BPK2L (Old City Area Management Agency) cannot be carried out properly because they do not receive government support in carrying out their duties.

Changing the Landscape of an American Town: Immigrantrification of a Korean Ethnoburb and Its Cultural and Economic Consequences.

This study focuses on the social, cultural, and physical transformations—referred to as immigrantrification (gentrification by immigrants)—initiated by Korean immigrants in Palisades Park, a well-known Koreatown in New Jersey, in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. It draws on data collected from ethnographic field research conducted in 2019–2020, including 67 interviews. Gentrification initiated as a profitable investment strategy of middle-class, entrepreneurial Korean immigrants has followed the town’s revitalization brought about by the population and economic growth and the expansion of amenities during the establishment of the Korean ethnoburb. While many residents complain about overcrowding, pollution, land-use intensity, and parking problems, Guatemalan immigrants—active participants in labor-intensive gentrification who have established their sub-enclave, gradually supplanting White residents—express fear of being priced out of the immigrantrified town. Thus, this study addresses two issues underrepresented in the gentrification discourse — third-world immigration and ethnic minority gentrification — by expanding the research on Korean gentrifiers.

A Small-Town Economic Revitalisation Conundrum: Focus on Tourism, Manufacturing, or Both?

The decline in small towns is a concern in many countries. The manufacturing and tourism sectors are considered to be important in the revitalisation of towns but could be subject to ‘Dutch disease’. This is a malady in which success in one sector leads to a decline in the other. The importance of, and relationships between, the manufacturing and tourism sectors of more than 500 United States micropolitan statistical areas (micropolitans) were extensively investigated by following settlement scaling theory. Publicly available 2016 datasets were used to test a hypothesis that Dutch disease between the two sectors is important. Both sectors are present and important in virtually all of the micropolitans. Regression analyses, including log–log (power-law) analyses, were used to examine the population-based and enterprise-based orderliness in the micropolitan demographic–socioeconomic–entrepreneurial nexus. There is much orderliness, and non-linear relationships are prevalent. No evidence of the presence of Dutch disease was recorded except in one case. When the strengths of the two sectors (as a percentage of their enterprise numbers in relation to total enterprise numbers) are compared, a weak negative relationship is observed. The hypothesis that Dutch disease is important was rejected. A focus on both sectors is recommended to build resilience and to contribute to the revitalisation/development of small towns.

Spatial impact of the Semarang old town revitalization: the emergence of formal and informal space

Old Town is a historic area and also a highly prospective tourism destination in Semarang city. Beforehand, this area faced some problems such as tidal flood, costly building maintenance, and high building taxes. As a result, many historic buildings are abandoned by their owners and become unkempt. Responding to this, the government decided to revitalize the Old Town areas, focusing on physical improvements like fixing roads, drainage, and adding infrastructure. This revitalization transforms the area’s spatial use, allowing more activities convened on the site. However, this transformation also triggers irregular space usage and informal space. In this study, we emphasize the emergence of formal and informal areas due to revitalization. It is essential to find out the emergence of these spaces as part of spatial management. We start by identifying elements in the revitalization process, comparing the land and space utilization before and after revitalization, and analyze its impact on the emergence of formal and informal spaces. We will collect the data through field observations, interviews, and literature review, and we utilize descriptive analysis and geographic information systems as a method of analysis. The results show that revitalization is indeed changing space utilization. Informal activities such as illegal dwellings, cockfights, prostitution, illegal street vendors, and unlawful parking are no longer present in the Old Town area. Informal activities have changed into formal activities as Semarang City Government provides avenues for service providers, pedestrians, and traders to utilize the space.

An economic analysis of New Town revitalization in Japan

An economic analysis of New Town revitalization in Japan

Planning for Tama New Town revitalization: update and issue

Planning for Tama New Town revitalization: update and issue

공동체 참여형 공간디자인 프로세스 연구 : 시흥시 대야동을 대상으로

Background : The purpose of this research is to examine space design methods and promotion process through community participation design project and to derive ways for project improvement, which centers on a case study of DaeYa-dong, SiHeung-si. Methods : Through a theoretical study of participative design and analysis about community participatory design project, we first systemize the perspective design methods, and the design process of a old town revitalization. Second, we focus on a case study of DaeYa-dong, SiHeung-si. Third, we systemize promotion methods and process and contents of a participative design project based on community driven design. Fourth, we derive ways to improve the project. Results : The technical factors needed participative space design and process and methods of community driven project was systematized through a analysis of literature review. DaeYa-dong case project was verified possibility of sustainable space design by a participative methods that involved process of planning, idea concepts, management, community activity and theme selection for a old town revitalization. Conclusions : This research proposed sustainable space design implications through an relationship basic on the Necessary Activity, Optional Activity, and Social Activity on participatory spaces design process of an old downtown area. Also, This project classed up possibility of integrated local space improvement proposed physical factor planning, participative program, and activity methods. This study can provide objectivity for the improvement of community driven design and the revitalization on a down town area.

Framing Service Learning in Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Elective Course Embedded within a University–Community Partnership

While academic service learning has grown in popularity across disciplines and universities, the pedagogical strategies for service learning courses vary greatly, especially for courses focused on development in underserved communities. Ideally, service learning pedagogy should place equal importance on student and community benefits, build reciprocal relationships with community partners, and engage students in deep reflection about social cultural and economic issues. In designing a new service learning elective course to engage students in a rural town revitalization project, we intentionally framed the course to meet the aforementioned goals. We used a three-component service learning pedagogy model that: (1) embedded the course in an existing university–community partnership; (2) mobilized interdisciplinary teams of students for community-identified projects; and (3) promoted reflection on complex economic and social justice issues by integrating students' processing through blog, faculty–student–community discussions, and community feedback. Benefits to students and community based on two qualitative studies are discussed, as are implications for social work education and research.

Strategi Penataan Kawasan Kota Lama Semarang

The government of Semarang initiate old town Revitalization program by the Local Government Regulation No. 8 of 2003 on Spatial Planning and Environment Building (SPEB) Old Town area of Semarang . SPEB is an effort to produce guidelines to develop , organize and relive the Old City . SPEB of Old Town area is expected to support the development and revitalization through urban design . The Urban Planning will be followed by the revitalization which is a long-term program. It Aims to enable the revitalization of the Old Town in accordance with the demands of time and a positive impact for the city of Semarang both in terms of tourism , economic , social , and cultural . However there are some problems in revitalizing the Old Town of Semarang that results in a state of stagnation continues - constantly in the Old Town of Semarang . The study analyzes the strengths , weaknesses , opportunities , and threats in order to obtain the proper management on strategic arrangement Old Town area of Semarang . The approach used is descriptive qualitative methods of data collection , interviews , and documentation studies . The data that have been collected will be presented and analyzed based on internal and external environment and the conclusions drawn . The conclusion of this study is by recognizing the strengths , weaknesses , opportunities , and threats based on internal and external environment formulated using SWOT analysis and tested with litmus tests , The Strategic Arrangement of Semarang Old Town obtained as follows: Character building and improvement of Human Resources ( HR ) , Improving the quality of HR through the development of a strong characteristic in the socio-cultural values , Improving object optimal service through the cooperation of various sectors of business and community involved in revitalizing Old Town, Each stakeholder improvement respective roles, Handling and tidal flooding , Providing incentives and ease of investment, Increased cooperation with various business sectors in development , Improved complementary tool is still lacking , as well as increase the participation of local communities and businesses.

Design for Decline: Landscape Architecture Strategies for the Western Australian Wheatbelt

Abstract Driven by economic restructuring, environmental degradation, and demographic shifts, the vast Wheatbelt region of Western Australia is faced with ongoing population decline as residents leave farms and towns for the coastal urban centers. Landscape architects are increasingly engaged by local communities and governments to facilitate the efforts of rural towns that seek to address decline. Revitalization efforts tend to be undertaken in isolation on a town-by-town basis, and frequently encounter limited opportunities for reversing structural decline in marginal agricultural regions. This paper expands the limited body of knowledge on this topic by contributing a contextual overview of the types of projects undertaken in Wheatbelt town revitalization and the actual and potential role of landscape architecture in catalyzing these endeavors. This exposition also presents alternative criteria for evaluating the success of town revitalization initiatives other than population and economic growth.

The exotic other: Latinos and the remaking of community identity in Perry, Iowa

Latino immigration, often resulting from the restructuring of the meatpacking industry, is reshaping the cultural identity of rural small town America. We explore how local institutions in Perry, Iowa, deal with the emerging cultural diversity in their town. The key findings of the research support the proposition that Perry's adopted cultural pluralism in fact is a case of Eurocentric values reconstructed to accommodate an appreciation of cultural diversity and of recent immigrants' contributions to local growth and town revitalization. The town's civic organizations' formal focus on myth making and multiculturalism leaves class, race, gender, privilege, and local power relations essentially unchallenged. We argue that the new multicultural praxis emerging in Perry reconstructs a model of local culture which maintains, and potentially reinforces, societal power disparities and leaves the town and its residents still grappling with questions and challenges of ethnic diversification. Assimilation through exoticization of the immigrant is a policy that is not conducive of equal treatment and leads to further marginalization of the immigrants. Community development multicultural policies should appreciate cultural diversity but not transform it into a museum curiosity for the locals. Indeed planners should valorize diversity to address issues of class, race, gender, privilege, and local power relations.

Study on Utilization of Open Spaces in New Town Revitalization Based on Actual Usage

Study on Utilization of Open Spaces in New Town Revitalization Based on Actual Usage

Study on Utilization of Open Spaces in New Town Revitalization Based on Actual Usage

Study on Utilization of Open Spaces in New Town Revitalization Based on Actual Usage

Tourism valorisation of site 'Lazar's town' in Kruševac

Kruševac is the town with rich tradition, long history, former Medieval Serbian capital, and today, it is the town which importance is fading. Tourism is observed as an adequate means of town revitalization, due to the fact that Kruševac possesses numerous cultural attractions. It has all the predispositions to become touristic destination based on culture. Tourism evaluation of cultural heritage is of great importance for planning the substantial development of cultural tourism. The aim of this work lies in conducting tourism valorization of the site 'Lazar's town', with purpose of examining its multiplicative, but mostly cultural-historical value, and by all means showing the potential that site could have in the process of the development of tourism in Kruševac. .

The role of the building regulations in achieving housing quality

Urban policy in the United Kingdom emphasises the importance of good design as a key component in the revitalisation of towns and cities. In particular, housebuilders are being encouraged to develo...

Book note

City Centres, City Cultures: The Role of the Arts in the Revitalisation of Towns and Cities. by Franco Bianchini, Mark Fisher, John Montgomery, Ken Worpole The Centre for Local Economic Strategies. 1988, 64 pp, £3.75.

Human exchange techniques for citizen participation in town revitalization

Citizen participation in design and planning can be regarded as one of the major social movements of the 1970s. Questions such as who should participate, how should they be involved, and when, are significant to designers. This paper illustrates one aspect of the participatory process: environmental awareness and how various human interaction techniques are used in different community settings. Small communities and urban neighbourhoods were selected because they have manageable scales for this type of human activity. Implicit in the examination of various participatory approaches is the recognition of an emerging new role for designers, that of structuring group efforts.