Study on the social production of space in the Tokyo metropolis after the 1980's

• Project/Area Number: 16610001
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 都市
• Research Institution: Waseda University (2005-2006); University of Tsukuba (2004)
• Principal Investigator: WAKABAYASHI Mikio Waseda University, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Professor, 教育・総合科学学術院, 教授 (40230916)
• Project Period (FY): 2004 – 2006
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2006)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000); Fiscal Year 2006: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000); Fiscal Year 2005: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000); Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
• Keywords: urban space / Tokyo / redevelopment / midtown / suburbia / urban discourse / urban image / 都市 / 空間の生産

Research Abstract

This project have tried to find the logic of urban development and redevelopment after the 1980's, mainly around the greater Tokyo area. To find such logic, books and documents are gleaned and the preceding works are studied. As the fieldwork, many places in midtown of Tokyo and its suburban areas are visited. In the mid-town of Tokyo, many new development and redevelopment project have produced a new type of urban space and urban complexes have after 1980's. In the suburban area I could assess the 1970's new-towns and some postmodern style residential area and new-towns after 1980's. I also gather the data from the web-site referring new urban space and urban complexes, which constitute the "urban space of images". I have find that after 1980's, the technique of manipulating signs, images and designs to make the surface of the urban complexes and urban space fashionable and fascinating place, a kind of artificial spectacles. By making such kind of urban complexes and urban space, the real estate capitals can add the value to the new developed areas. As the results, areas around the developed or redeveloped area tend to be recognized as "margins" by the people who work, visit or dwell in the respect area or urban complexes. This technique of urban development excludes the neighborhood of the developed area from the consciousness of people. The same trend was found in Seoul, the Korea Republic, where I visited for comparative research and meeting with some specialists of urban studies. I also find the same kind of change in the suburban area of Tokyo, and analyze the change in the context of the urbanization, consumer-oriented change of society and individualization in the pos-war period of Japan. This research was published as Kogai no Shakaigaku (The Sociology of Suburbia).

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より (2007)
  • Author(s): WAKABAYASHI Mikio
  • Journal Title: Kogai no Shakaigaku : Gengai o Ikiru Katachi (The Sociology of Suburbia : The Form of the Contemporary Life)(Chikuma Shobo Publishing) Pages: 231-231
• [Journal Article] 景観の消滅、景観の浮上 (2006)
  • Author(s): 若林 幹夫
  • Journal Title: 10+1(テン・プラス・ワン) No.43 Pages: 126-135
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] 景観の消滅、景観の浮上 (2006)
  • Author(s): 若林幹夫
  • Journal Title: 10+1(テン・プラス・ワン) No.43
• [Journal Article] Book Review : Kokoku Toshi Tokyo (2005)
  • Author(s): Mikio Wakabayashi
  • Journal Title: Social Science Japan Journal vol.8, No.2 Pages: 305-308
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] 手のひらの上のホーム-モバイル・メディアと社会のトポロジー (2005)
  • Author(s): 若林 幹夫
  • Journal Title: Mobile Society Review Vol.4 Pages: 6-11
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より (2005)
  • Author(s): WAKABAYASHI Mikio
  • Journal Title: "Book Review : Kokoku Toshi Tokyo by KITADA Akihiro", Social Science Japan Journal Vol.8-No.2 Pages: 305-308
• [Journal Article] 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より (2005)
  • Author(s): WAKABAYASHI Mikio
  • Journal Title: "Tenohira no Ue no Homu : Mobairu Media to Shakai no Toporogi (The Home on the Palm : Mobile Media and Topology of Society)", Mobile Society Review Vol.4 Pages: 6-11
• [Journal Article] 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より (2005)
  • Author(s): YOSHIMI Shunya, WAKABAYASHI Mikio
  • Journal Title: Tokyo Sutadizu (Tokyo Studies), Kinokuniya Shoten Publishing Pages: 285-285
• [Journal Article] Book Review : Kokoku Toshi Tokyo : Sono Tanjo to Shi (The Advertising City of Tokyo : Its Birth and Death) (Kitada Akihiro) (2005)
  • Author(s): Wakabayashi Mikio
  • Journal Title: Social Science Japan Journal Vol.8, No.2 Pages: 305-308
• [Journal Article] 手のひらの上のホーム--モバイル・メディアと社会のトポロジー (2005)
  • Author(s): 若林幹夫
  • Journal Title: Mobile Society Review 未来心理 Vol.4 Pages: 6-11
• [Journal Article] 都市景観の変容をめぐる諸問題 (2005)
  • Author(s): 若林 幹夫
  • Journal Title: 10+1(テン・プラス・ワン) 38 Pages: 89-90
• [Journal Article] 浮上するエコロジー一環境の近代と、その環境 (2004)
  • Author(s): 若林 幹夫
  • Journal Title: 季刊 d/SIGN 7号 Pages: 67-70
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Journal Article] 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より (2004)
  • Author(s): WAKABAYASHI Mikio
  • Journal Title: "Fujo-suru Ekorogi : Kankyo no Kindai to sono Kankyo (Emerging Ecology) : Modernity of Environment, and Its Environment" d/Sign No.7 Pages: 67-70
• [Journal Article] 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より (2004)
  • Author(s): MATSUBARA Ryuichiro, SATO Kenji; ABIKO kazue, ARAYAMA Masahiko, WAKABAYASHI Mikio
  • Journal Title: Keikann o Saiko-suru, (Rethinking the Landscape), Seikyusha Publishing Pages: 256-256
• [Journal Article] 皇帝の新しい建築師たち-妄想的/普遍的中国現代城市横断 (2004)
  • Author(s): 若林 幹夫
  • Journal Title: 建築文化 59・673 Pages: 46-47
• [Journal Article] 都市のカルチュラル・スタディーズ (2004)
  • Author(s): 若林 幹夫
  • Journal Title: City & Life 74 Pages: 38-39
• [Journal Article] 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • Author(s): WAKABAYASHI Mikio
  • Journal Title: Keikan no Shometsu, Keikan no Fujo (The Disappearance of Landscape, the Appearance of Landscape) 10+1, No.43 Pages: 126-135
• [Book] 郊外の社会学-現代を生きる形 (2007)
  • Author(s): 若林幹夫
  • Total Pages: 231
  • Publisher: 筑摩書房
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Book] 東京スタディーズ (2005)
  • Author(s): 吉見俊哉, 若林幹夫
  • Total Pages: 285
  • Publisher: 紀伊國屋書店
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Book] 東京スタディーズ (2005)
  • Author(s): 吉見俊哉, 若林幹夫他
  • Total Pages: 285
  • Publisher: 紀伊国屋書店
• [Book] 景観を再考する (2004)
  • Author(s): 松原隆一郎, 佐藤健二, 安彦一恵, 荒山正彦, 若林幹夫
  • Total Pages: 256
  • Publisher: 青弓社
  • Description: 「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
• [Book] <景観>を再考する (2004)
  • Author(s): 松原隆一郎他
  • Total Pages: 256
  • Publisher: 青弓社