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The purpose of this chapter is to show the effectiveness and limitation of the community-based approach to the incremental improvement of vulnerable urban space in Tokyo, namely densely built-up wooden housing areas, focusing on two typical cases: Taishido district and Kyojima district.
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Nakamura, H. (2008). The Incremental Improvement of the Area Densely Built-up with Old Wooden Houses in Tokyo. In: Kidokoro, T., Okata, J., Matsumura, S., Shima, N. (eds) Vulnerable Cities: Realities, Innovations and Strategies. cSUR-UT Series: Library for Sustainable Urban Regeneration, vol 8. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-78149-3_8
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