Après des remarques sur la participation citoyenne, l'A. analyse l'aire résidentielle de Suginamiku située à l'ouest de Tôkyô. Deux projets sont choisis pour évaluer le degré de participation des citoyens : le Suginami Master Plan et le Shiruku Rôdo.
of the forest that the city wants to use for development. He shows that theories of space, place, and resistance must be supplemented with a contextual analysis of the master cultural narratives that form the symbolic grounds of these conflicts.
The Irvine Ranch in Southern California is the largest privately master-planned new community or satellite new town ever to be built in the US. The development was led by the private sector but government played an important role. The paper traces