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Slow Cities? The revitalisation of Shrinking Communities in Japan
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Cittaslow (Slow City) is a rural development movement of small towns started in Italy in 1999. The movement aims to improve their quality of life and sustainability by emphasizing the individual towns’ unique identities, the local asset-based economy, and by promoting an eco-friendly environment. Cittaslow has rapidly grown into a transnational phenomenon. In recent years, the movement has attracted increasing interest from shrinking towns in EU countries as a community revitalisation instrument. In Japan, Chihō-sōsei (regional revitalisation) has been a top policy agenda, to create strategies for improving the quality of life in shrinking communities. Various actors have developed different forms in movements to (re)settle in country side. This workshop offers an opportunity for a transnational dialogue between scholars and practitioners of Japanese revitalization programmes, and key participants of the Cittaslow movement. – See more at: www.nissan.ox.ac.uk/slow-cities-revitalisation-shrinking-communities-japan#sthash.aflII3zl.dpuf
Date:
10 March 2016, 9:30
Venue:
St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details:
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building
Speakers:
Speaker to be announced
Organiser:
Heuishil Chang (Nissawn Institute of Japanese Studies)
Organiser contact email address:
heuishil.chang@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Alice Chautard
