Spatial Economics for Building Back Better: The Japanese Experience

by Masahisa Fujita, Nobuaki Hamaguchi, Yoshihiro Kameyama

Book Overview

The central theme of this book is national land and infrastructure design in the age of the declining population and the recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake in the affected regions in Japan. Based on the theory of spatial economics and evidence from Japanese history, the authors show that the growing economy with a population increase develops into a multi-cored and complex structure. In the population decline phase, however, such construction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811649537
• ISBN13: 9789811649530
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"