{"title":"Inclusive urban regeneration approaches through small projects: A comparative study of three Japanese machizukuri cases","authors":"Hiroki Nakajima, Akito Murayama","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105241","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Small projects have recently attracted attention as a starting point for urban regeneration. However, by promoting elastic urban regeneration characteristics, their temporality and informality may cause gentrification and social exclusion. Thus, do small projects contribute to inclusive urban regeneration based on citizen-centered activities? Although Japanese <em>machizukuri</em>, performed to improve the quality of built and social environments, are advanced inclusive citizen-centered activities realized through self-organization processes, they have not been sufficiently positioned in the urban regeneration context. Hence, this study aimed to position Japanese <em>machizukuri</em> in this context and identify its inclusive processes from a resource-based perspective through a comparative study of three cases. The findings indicate that <em>machizukuri</em> addresses the dilemmas of temporality and institutionalization and realizes inclusive urban regeneration through small projects that self-organize the processes of exploring suitable areas and mitigating resource inequality. The study also provides a general typology of three inclusive approaches. As a planning practice and policy implication, the emergent governance model of flexible territorial and institutional features discussed in this study suggests the need to continuously coordinate the governance sizes and boundaries of areas using dynamic bottom-up citizens' agencies, beyond administrative districts and sectional organizations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275124004554/pdfft?md5=5ce603cbf792c917b760f26d902658f5&pid=1-s2.0-S0264275124004554-main.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cities","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275124004554","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"URBAN STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Small projects have recently attracted attention as a starting point for urban regeneration. However, by promoting elastic urban regeneration characteristics, their temporality and informality may cause gentrification and social exclusion. Thus, do small projects contribute to inclusive urban regeneration based on citizen-centered activities? Although Japanese machizukuri, performed to improve the quality of built and social environments, are advanced inclusive citizen-centered activities realized through self-organization processes, they have not been sufficiently positioned in the urban regeneration context. Hence, this study aimed to position Japanese machizukuri in this context and identify its inclusive processes from a resource-based perspective through a comparative study of three cases. The findings indicate that machizukuri addresses the dilemmas of temporality and institutionalization and realizes inclusive urban regeneration through small projects that self-organize the processes of exploring suitable areas and mitigating resource inequality. The study also provides a general typology of three inclusive approaches. As a planning practice and policy implication, the emergent governance model of flexible territorial and institutional features discussed in this study suggests the need to continuously coordinate the governance sizes and boundaries of areas using dynamic bottom-up citizens' agencies, beyond administrative districts and sectional organizations.
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Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy makers from national and local government, non-government organizations, academia and consultancy. The primary aims of the journal are to analyse and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.