- Tokyo’s large-scale urban Redevelopment Projects and their Processes    248 kb by    Shima, Norihisa & Hiramoto, Kazuo & Seta, Kensuke Katayama; Changgi Kim, Seungyeoun Cho; Hajime Matsutani, Fumihiko | shima@urban.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp    Short Outline In central Tokyo more large-scale urban redevelopment projects have been recently completed, which are in the arena of interest. From the selected 12 projects, this paper tries to discuss the desirable way of the cooperation process. Abstract In the central Tokyo, mainly due to the reduced government regulations on various fields since the 1980s, more large-scale urban redevelopment projects have been recently completed, which can give an impact on fairly large area around the project site. Naturally, they were (and still are) arenas of interests. Implemented in the central Tokyo, the interests are more complicated. In the project, the actors, such as the government, the private developer, the community, managed to coordinate (and still manage to coordinate) their own interests in the project process to form �gcooperation�h among them. However, as is often the case, the formation of the cooperation delayed the project process, but the actors reached (sometimes seem to reach) it with formal institutions and informal institutions. Then different ways of cooperation process can be observed in different projects This paper focuses on the project processes of the selected 12 large-scale urban redevelopment projects recently completed in the central Tokyo. The central theme of this paper is to find out how the cooperation process can be developed and organized in each project and then to discuss its desirable way, based on reviewing documents and making interviews. The contents of this paper are as follows; Firstly, the reduced government regulation since the 1980s and large-scale redevelopment projects are outlined. Reviewing the large-scale urban redevelopment projects in the central Tokyo, cooperation processes of the selected 12 projects are examined with reference to actors and their new organization, formal institution and informal institution they took. Finally, the desirable way of the cooperation process is discussed. Keywords Large-scale urban redevelopment project, cooperation process, urban regeneration, central Tokyo Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2007: Urban Trialogues   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper