What is it about?
Many Japanese shōtengai are disappearing due to retail modernization, different consumption habits and new lifestyles. Resilience planning is likely to enhance and augment their innate qualities.
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Why is it important?
This is an innovative research piece on shōtengai's evolution, decline and regeneration efforts. The study covers shōtengai in two of Japan’s largest cities, Tokyo and Osaka, as well as in two small cities in the metropolitan area of Tokyo and Hiroshima prefecture, Sakura and Onomichi, respectively.
Perspectives
I created new knowledge and identified a set of lessons on the specific nuances of the Japanese shopping street at the beginning of the twenty-first century, including shōtengai's extensiveness, liveliness and vibrancy. Please contact me (cbalsas@albany.edu / 518-442-4469) if you like to read the paper. Thank you. Learn more: http://www.albany.edu/cas-newsletter/spring-2016/professor-balsas.html
Dr. Carlos J. L. Balsas, AICP
Ulster University Belfast
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This page is a summary of: Japanese shopping arcades, pinpointing vivacity amidst obsolescence, Town Planning Review, March 2016, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/tpr.2016.15.
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Research
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Conference talk
Video segment: 1:26:27 - 1:45:13 5° Seminario Internacional Ciudad, Comercio y Consumo (Video 3-Sesión 1) Balsas, C. (Forthcoming 2016) Understanding Shibuya’s Teachings. In: Gasca, J. and Oliveira, P. – Eds. Ciudad, Comércio y Consumo. Mexico City: UNAM Press.
Japanese Shopping Streets
A 22-min video about the Japanese shotengai. Thank you Life Where I'm From.
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