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Urban democracy in Japan

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Urban Democracy

Part of the book series: Reihe: Städte und Regionen in Europa ((SRE,volume 1))

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At the beginning of the chapter, the most important social characteristics of big cities can be described in form of a comparative point of view. First, cities in modern Japan were formed by a double process: the drift of population from rural to urban areas as a result of industrialization and increase of urban populations through municipal amalgamation. For the purpose of this book the standard for a big city is set at a population of 100,000 inhabitants or more, but municipalities at this population-size would never be called the big cities in Japan. Most cities of this size were formed through repeated municipal amalgamation. Today, however, almost 80% of the Japanese population live in cities (Shi), and the urban way of life has spread itself widely and deeply into rural areas (see Table 1 and 2).

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Kawasaki, N. (2000). Urban democracy in Japan. In: Gabriel, O.W., Hoffmann-Martinot, V., Savitch, H.V. (eds) Urban Democracy. Reihe: Städte und Regionen in Europa, vol 1. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-99969-6_9

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