Land Readjustment (LR) is a land development technique used in many countries around
the world including Germany, Sweden, Japan, Taiwan and Korea. In essence it is a method …

Cities concentrate a large part of the world economy today. Understanding how the urban
economy and its decision making function as well as how they are connected to a larger …

This paper examines the role of land readjustment (LR) projects in suburban planning and
land development in a case-study area in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. LR projects have …

Scholars have widely discussed the issue of how to govern rapidly growing metropolitan
regions under the economic, social and political pressures of globalization. Many have …

While industralization programmes have been central to the development of Asia-Pacific
states and city-regions over the past half-century, service industries are increasingly …

This book discusses attitudes to nature and ecological sustainability in the Asia-Pacific
region. Its main focus is on the environmental attitudes and education of young people. The …

BASS SJ (1998) Japanese research parks: national policy and local development, Reg.
Studies 32, 391±403. Many important regional high technology (RHT) initiatives have …

Thanks to the leading role of universities in cities as knowledge and innovation hubs, many
cities rely on their universities to face their economic and social challenges. On the other …

Japan is one of the most crowded countries on earth, with three-fourths of its population now
living in cities. Tokyo is easily the most populous city on the planet. And yet, though closely …

In recent years urbanization has become synonym to development. Developing countries
like India has experienced huge shift in the economy from agrarian base to service oriented …