SEMINAR: Asian Studies Seminar Series
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Asian Studies Seminar Series : Creating a knowledge-based region through policy integration and joint governance: The case of Kobe City in Kansai, Japan |
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This paper explores the knowledge-based development of Kobe, Kansai, from its top-down governance after WWII to ideological shifts which provided greater regional scope for location-specific strategies and decision-making. After the destruction of the 1996 Hanshin earthquake, Kobe trialed new greenfields planning methods to address social and industrial issues. It aimed to increase the policy integration of community, industry and leisure through a joint national knowledge-based development vision and bottom-up neighbourhood planning approach. By the 2000’s, Kobe emerged as a competitive knowledge-based economy. This paper documents changing governance approaches shaping the interplay between national, regional and local policy as well as perspectives of key regional stakeholders involved in policy implementation. It explores the impact Japan’s top-down governance had on local industry development, and how this has gradually changed from one of total autocratic control to one of regional autonomy within nationally-coordinated guidelines. It is perhaps this evolution in governance flexibility that provided foundations for the successful development of Kobe’s knowledge-based industry.
Speaker(s) |
Assistant Professor Kirsten Martinus
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Location |
Seminar room G.25, Social Sciences North.
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Contact |
Laura Dales
<[email protected]>
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Start |
Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:30
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End |
Fri, 09 Aug 2013 15:00
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Submitted by |
Karen Eichorn <[email protected]>
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Last Updated |
Tue, 06 Aug 2013 18:52
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