With the assistance of JLGC, LSE Cities has developed a case study on aspects of urban governance in Tokyo. The case study was first presented at LSE Cities’ 2014 Urban Age conference ‘Governing Urban Futures’ and can be viewed here, with the datasets on Governance Structures viewed here.
LSE Cities, the urban affairs research centre at the London School of Economics, has more on the project:
It brings together data and evidence from the Urban Age research programme and LSE Cities’ recently launched ‘New Urban Governance’ project, supported by the MacArthur Foundation. It provides a global overview of contemporary urban development and illustrates critical urban governance dynamics cutting across the differences in urban settlement patterns, urban governance geographies and governance indicators. More detailed city-specific analysis is presented for four case study cities which, over the last decades, have been particularly relevant cases for understanding institutional arrangements and change at the city and metropolitan level. These case study cities are Delhi, Tokyo, London and Bogotá, and the analysis cuts across the cities’ systems of government, their urban expansion and the evolution of their administrative areas, and the governance of their transport infrastructures.
