TAMA NEW TOWN, WEST OF TOKYO: ANALYSIS OF A SHRINKING SUBURB

TAMA NEW TOWN, WEST OF TOKYO: ANALYSIS OF A SHRINKING SUBURB

[SHS:GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography

new town

suburb

ageing

shrinkage

planning

reversibility

This paper aims at analyzing the process of urban shrinkage in the Japanese frame. It focuses on the case of Tama New town, developed at the end of the sixties 40 km West of Tokyo during a period of demographic boom. Nowadays, this ageing new town is representative of Tokyo's shrinking suburb. Criteria of shrinkage are defined and tested in Tama. Thus, it is possible to delimit a form of retraction or shrinkage characteristic of that kind of suburb. As a result, applied solutions are proposed, calling into question a model of urbanization (endless urban sprawl) and bringing to the fore new debates concerning reversibility and sustainability of town planning.

Ducom, Estelle

2008-01-09

ENG

preprint

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00203107

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/21/59/89/PDF/LaUP-DUCOM.pdf

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/21/59/89/PDF/LaUP-DUCOM2.pdf