2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The urban shrinkage and urban restructurings of habor cities in a comparative perspective
| Project/Area Number |
23330048
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan University |
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Principal Investigator |
KAMO Toshio 立命館大学, 公務研究科, 教授 (80047357)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ABE Masaki 大阪市立大学, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (10244625)
SUNAHARA Yousuke 大阪大学, 大学院・法学研究科, 准教授 (40549680)
SOGA Kengo 神戸大学, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (60261947)
TAMAI Ryoko 山梨県立大学, 国際政策学部, 准教授 (10621740)
TOKUHISA Kyoko 立命館大学, 法学部, 教授 (60440997)
MACHIDORI Satoshi 京都大学, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (40283709)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
HAYASHI Masahiro 常葉大学, 法学部, 講師 (00632902)
YAHAGI Hiroshi 龍谷大学, 政策学部, 教授 (40364020)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 縮小都市 / 比較政治 / 都市政治 / 港湾都市 / 政府間関係 / 都市間競争 / 都市間連携 |
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| Research Abstract |
This project focuses on urban shrinkage, an issue prevailing among contemporary industrial countries, to search its political and policy implications. Many cities are concerned on the shrinking of population entailed by aging society with a falling birth rate and globalization of the world economy. However, shrinking is not a one-way street to decline. Rather, it offers new opportunities to political actors and policy advocates for finding new ways of urban restructurings through their creative reactions.
We tried to specify "what makes policy responses to urban shrinkage divergent among cities", by researching 8 harbor cities in America, France, Germany, and Japan. Consequently we find out that institutional factors as follow matter in making urban policies differentiate: electoral systems, governmental structures-particularly relationship between executive and legislative branches, inter-governmental relations-, and the degree of geographical-functional segmentation.
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