Case Study on Managing Urban Expansion in Tokyo
Tokyo, with a population of 38 million (2017) has been the world’s largest mega city for the past sixty years in terms of economic scale and population agglomeration. Through Japan’s drastic economic and social changes, this enormous city has been...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/926951560829706822/Case-Study-on-Managing-Urban-Expansion-in-Tokyo http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31939 |
| Summary: | Tokyo, with a population of 38 million
(2017) has been the world’s largest mega city for the past
sixty years in terms of economic scale and population
agglomeration. Through Japan’s drastic economic and social
changes, this enormous city has been performing a difficult
balancing act of managing urban growth at the national,
prefectural, and municipal levels. |
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