Publication: Place Identities of Japanese Social Housing (Danchi):The Role of Urban Design in Creating a “Place”
| dc.contributor.author | Soma, Hanae | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-16T07:41:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-05-16T07:41:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In the backdrop of post-war economic growth and rapid urbanisation in Japan (late 1950s to early 1970s), many large-scale developments took place in suburban areas to counteract the critical situation of housing shortages. These social housings, referred to as “danchi,” which were suburban residential community with multi-family apartment blocks became a defining characteristic of the period. For its efficiency, danchi were generally developed into uniform homogenised forms. In reference to Relph's (1976) concept, lacking authentic and individual sense of identities, a typical danchi is more likely to represent placelessness than place. Despite once perceived as an iconic lifestyle of the middle-class, welcoming working-age families, today its context is commonly associated with social issues (Nordin & Nakamura, 2018). Nearly half a century after the peak of developments, many danchi communities are faced with issues of weakened social structure such as, ageing population, depopulation, weakened neighbourhood relationships (Gouda & Okamoto, 2012), and deteriorating or dated physical issues such as, absence of elevators, dated or degraded basic infrastructure (Yoshikawa, 2010). | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-9916-4-1319-7 | |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 384-399 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/189 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | |
| dc.source | Space for species : Redefining spatial justice - book of proceedings 34; 2 | |
| dc.title | Place Identities of Japanese Social Housing (Danchi):The Role of Urban Design in Creating a “Place” | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |