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At the end of the century Japanese urban planning has to pay attention to a number of issues. These include improving the quality of life through higher housing standards, the provision of parkland and other urban services, as well as generating new economic functions such as research, high tech industries and service sector employment. Nagoya is particularly instructive due to its ranking as a city with a good environment, its enthusiasm for urban design, and its role as a centre within a vigorous manufacturing region. The first part of the chapter looks at Nagoya’s commitment to continually upgrade suburban areas as well as the downtown, most recently under the auspices of the Nagoya City New Basic Plan of the late 1980s. Parallel to this effort has been innovative ways to restructure the local economy through promoting improved technology support, as well as design and information systems, thus allowing value-added production to remain in Nagoya and the surrounding Chukyo industrial area. The chapter then brings both these directions in planning together by looking at a project known as the Shidami ‘human science’ town, a high quality development combining research and residential functions set on 780 hectares in the northeastern part of Nagoya.
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Edgington, D.W. (2000). New directions in Japanese urban planning: a case study of Nagoya. In: Bowles, P., Woods, L.T. (eds) Japan after the Economic Miracle. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4277-9_9
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