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Creativity in Tokyo

Revitalizing a Mature City

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Authors:
  1. Matjaz Ursic

    1. Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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  2. Heide Imai

    1. Faculty of Intercultural Communication, Senshu University, Tokyo, Japan

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  • Analyzes the ‘creative capacity’ of Tokyo, which includes not only the capacity to absorb temporary shocks and react to occasional economic crisis, but involves the capacity for long-term renewal, re-organization and development from the set of available comparative advantages that stem from locally embedded cultural, social, tacit knowledge

  • Examines the spatial factors that either pull or push small creative groups and individuals to/from Tokyo

  • Interprets the social, cultural, economic and spatial characteristics of transformation of public spaces in Tokyo

  • Offers a valuable and fresh contribution to the existing literature on transnational urban cultures, as well as urban network studies

  • Will appeal to architects, urban designers, consultants and community planners as well as local town planning groups, neighbourhood associations and NGO’s globally

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Matjaz Ursic, Heide Imai
    Pages 1-19

  3. Tokyo as a Matured City: Torn Between Global Change and Local Lives

    • Matjaz Ursic, Heide Imai
    Pages 21-52

  4. Conceptualizing Urban Creativity: Searching for Traces of Tokyo’s Urban Development

    • Matjaz Ursic, Heide Imai
    Pages 53-83

  5. Going Small Matters: The Role of Small Creative Actors in Tokyo’s Creative Ecosystem

    • Matjaz Ursic, Heide Imai
    Pages 85-109

  6. Going Local 1: Creative Actors, Spatial Resources, and Social Networks

    • Matjaz Ursic, Heide Imai
    Pages 111-138

  7. Going Local 2: Subcultural Capital and Social Creativity

    • Matjaz Ursic, Heide Imai
    Pages 139-176

  8. Going Local 3: The Influence of Cultural Capital on the Creative Capacity of Place

    • Matjaz Ursic, Heide Imai
    Pages 177-202

  9. Going Local 4: The Significance of Local Soft Environmental Factors for Tokyo’s Creative Capacity

    • Matjaz Ursic, Heide Imai
    Pages 203-223

  10. Concluding Remarks

    • Matjaz Ursic, Heide Imai
    Pages 225-236

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 237-248
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About this book

This book focuses on overlooked contextual factors that constitute the urban creative climate or innovative urban milieu in contemporary cities. Filled with reflections based on interviews with a diverse range of creative actors in various local neighborhoods in Tokyo, it offers a rare glimpse into the complex set of elements that provide long-term, physical, and sociocultural support to urban creativity. Ursic and Imai highlight the interplay between physical and soft (social) factors in the process of place-making and explore how a city’s creativity is influenced by financial support and accessible infrastructure, as well as the sets of informal networks, services, and tacit, locally embedded knowledge that provide the basic layers of stimuli needed for creativity to fully develop. The authors show how the future development of creativity and the overall development of a city depend not only on the (top-down) planning strategies of formal authorities, but also on the appropriate (bottom-up) inclusion of heterogeneous elements that are provided and embedded within the small, hidden context of city spaces.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Matjaz Ursic

  • Faculty of Intercultural Communication, Senshu University, Tokyo, Japan

    Heide Imai

About the authors

Dr. Matjaz Ursic is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.



Dr. Heide Imai is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Intercultural Communication, Senshu University, Tokyo.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Creativity in Tokyo

  • Book Subtitle: Revitalizing a Mature City

  • Authors: Matjaz Ursic, Heide Imai

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6687-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6686-8Published: 09 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6689-9Published: 10 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-6687-5Published: 08 September 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 248

  • Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Urbanism, Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)

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