2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Re-considering the concept of creative city ; Comparative studies between Japan and Europe

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21560634
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Town planning/Architectural planning
Research Institution	National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Principal Investigator	KAKIUCHI Emiko 政策研究大学院大学, 政策研究科, 教授 (90263029)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	HASHIMOTO Hisayoshi 政策研究大学院大学, 政策研究科, 名誉教授 (90261883) MOTOSUGHI Shozo 日本大学, 理工学部, 教授 (40096920)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	創造都市 / 文化
Research Abstract	This study aims at re-creating the concept of the "Creative City". The creative city can be defined as the city which uses its capacity to design culture, industries and lifestyle for attaining the sustainable development into the future. Those creative cities can be realized by avoiding excessive competition among cities, and promoting endogenous small and medium sized enterprises. Though Europe-Japan comparative studies, our findings strongly indicates that despite the large differences in society and economic situations between the two parties, there are common issues and agenda such as the globalization, aging, deindustrialization, and devolution, and it would be essential to promote manpower development as well as various small and medium sized industries for realization of the creative city.