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Author:   Tomoko Kubo ,  Yoshimichi Yui
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9789811379222

ISBN 10:   981137922
Pages:   175
Publication Date:   15 August 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Why the rise in urban housing vacancies oc-curred and matters in Japan.- Mapping the problems of housing vacancies in Japan.- Changes in essential facilities of housing estates in an aging society: the failure of city planning in Japan.- Geodemographic characteristics of vacant houses in the resale condominium market in the Kansai metropolitan area.- The decline in price of suburban secondhand hosuing in Hiroshima city.- Distribution of vacant homes in Tama city in the Tokyo metropolitan area: estimation using GIS and small area statistics.- Urban abandonment and housing vacancies in Japanese local cities: a case of Kyo-machiya, traditional wooden town houses.- A problem of vacant housing in local cities: Utsunomiya city, Tochigi prefecture case study.- Revitalizing old houses “Kominka” by private real estate agencies.- Local responses to a rise in housing vacancies in the Nagoya suburbs. 

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Tomoko Kubo is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences of the University of Tsukuba, Japan. She is an urban geographer working in the field of housing studies. She is currently the Chair of the Urban Geography Commission’s Young Scholar (YS) Committee of the International Geographical Union (IGU) after winning its 2012 YS Paper competition, and a board member of the Research Committee on Housing and the Built Environment (RC43) of the International Sociological Association (ISA). Her research interests include urbanization and the housing market, urban and housing policy, residential choices under socioeconomic changes, single women’s homeownership, shrinking cities and their revitalization, and aging suburbs in Japan. Yoshimichi Yui is a Professor at the Graduate School of Education of Hiroshima University, Japan. He is currently a board member of the UNESCO Associated School Project University Network. His research interests include housing studies in geography, urban geography, aging, town planning, welfare, gender, childcare, revitalizing housing estates, and geography education.

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