The Sociological Amalysis of the Urban Renewal Project in the Age of the Post-Industrial Society

本项目探讨了日本特大城市中城市更新项目的社会学意义。(1)我们收集了实际资料，从“当代日本城市内社区的衰落与复兴”这一题目出发，分析了东京市中心、大阪、神户、广岛等城市内社区的变化面貌。(2)池袋、新笠（东京）、池野区（大阪）等具体的市中心社区，经历了来自海外、中国、台湾、韩国等的新亚洲外国人的共同生活。(3)关于阐明亚洲新移民在东京中心地区的实际生活状况的实地调查方法存在激烈的争论，尽管从长期深入访谈中收集的研究数据生动地突出了新移民含糊不清的声音。为了应对日本城市和社区生活的巨大变化，我们不得不关注后工业社会中发生的许多更广泛的变化，包括跨国移民的影响。因此，人们对比较的视角产生了极大的兴趣，尤其是对海外亚裔聚居地的比较。为了确认这个城市现在被视为一个全球性的社会，最终项目（1994年）强调了这一主题。

This Project have explored the sociological meanings of the urban renewal projects in the Japanese Mega-Cities.(1) We have gathered the actual informations and analyzed the changing face of the inner-city communities in Central Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Hiroshima from the viewpoints of the following title : the decline and revitalization of the inner-city communities in contemporary Japan.(2) The specific innercity communities, IKEBUKURO,NIPPORI (TOKYO), IKUNO-KU (OSAKA) have experienced the living together of the New Asian foreigners from overseas countries, China, Taiwan, Koreas and Others.(3) There was intense debate about fieldwork methodology for elucidating Asian newcomers'actual living conditions in the Central Tokyo districts, although the research data, gathered from in-depth intervien over an extended period, vividly highlighted the newcomers'inarticulate voices.(4) In response to the tremendous changes in Japan's urban and Commonity life, we have to become concerned with many of the broader changes occuring in post-industrial society including the effects of cross-national migration.As a result, there is a great interest in comparative perspectives, especially of overseas Asian ethnic enclaves.As it to confirm that that the city is now seen as a global society, the final project (1994) highlighted this theme.