André Sorensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3677430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | André Sorensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | André |
| FAMILY NAME | Sorensen |
| SIGNATURE | SORENSEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Rupture, Planning, and Institutional Transformation
Can We Retrofit Suburban Arterials: Analyzing the Walkability and Retrofit Potential of Four Toronto Region Corridors
Problem, research strategy, and findings The multilane arterial roadway is a central feature of post–World War II (WWII) suburbs that challenges efforts to create more transit-oriented regions. Retrofitting suburbs is an important planning goal, but research examining the urban form of arterials and their potential for transformation has been scarce. We analyzed four suburban corridors in the Toronto (Canada) region developed during different per…
Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940 by Alice Y. Tseng
Reviewed by: Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940 by Alice Y. Tseng Andre Sorensen (bio) Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940. By Alice Y. Tseng. University of Hawai'i Press, 2018. xvii, 269 pages. $68.00, cloth. Premised on the idea that urban scholarship of Japan is overly biased toward a focus on Tokyo, Alice Tseng has set out to correct the balance with this volume on public initiatives …
Handbook of Megacities and Megacity-Regions
Institutions and Urban Space: Land, Infrastructure, and Governance in the Production of Urban Property
This paper develops an historical institutionalist approach to municipal governance, infrastructure, and property institutions, suggesting that the dense matrices of institutions in cities are co-evolutionary and path dependent. Property, infrastructure, and governance institutions play a central role in regulating capital investment in cities, structure urban change, protect and structure property’s meaning and value, and demonstrate enduringly …
Periurbanization as the institutionalization of place: The case of Japan
Periurbanization as the institutionalization of place: The case of Japan
Taking path dependence seriously: An historical institutionalist research agenda in planning history
This paper outlines an historical institutionalist (HI) research agenda for planning history. HI approaches to the understanding of institutions, path dependence, positive feedback effects in public policy, and patterned processes of institutional change offer a robust theoretical framework and a valuable set of conceptual and analytic tools for the analysis of continuity and change in public policy. Yet, to date, there has been no systematic eff…
Megacities: Urban Form, Governance, and Sustainability
Evolving Property Rights in Japan: Patterns and Logics of Change
Property rights in land are often regarded as among the most inflexible of the institutional structures that shape urban change, particularly when enshrined in a written constitution. This paper argues that the meaning and specification of property rights in the city are continually contested and in flux and that the evolving practice of city planning is a significant element that contributes to change. A better understanding of the mechanisms of…
Uneven Processes of Institutional Change: Path Dependence, Scale and the Contested Regulation of Urban Development in Japan
This article contributes to the understanding of institutional change in urban governance through an analysis of ongoing conflicts over the regulation of development in Japanese cities. A typology of institutional change processes helps to show that while change at central and local government scales have been transformative of the institutional frameworks of land planning and land development, they are deeply contradictory in their trajectories …
From Participation to the Right to the City: Democratic Place Management at the Neighbourhood Scale in Comparative Perspective
Public participation processes have become increasingly important as a means of structuring the relationship between states and citizens in managing processes of urban change, but continue to fall short of achieving significant democratization of urban governance. Through an examination of three bottom-up processes of citizen engagement in managing urban change at the scale of urban neighbourhoods—Bellavista in Santiago, Chile, Yanaka in Tokyo, J…
Urban Renaissance as Intensification: Building Regulation and the Rescaling of Place Governance in Tokyo’s High-rise Manshon Boom
During the past decade, Tokyo has seen a massive building boom, despite a prolonged economic slump since 1990. Since the 1980s, central government has enacted a steady stream of building code changes that allow much larger buildings. This paper argues that the recent wave of private investment in high-rise intensification has been instigated by these changes to building regulations, so that the form of urban restructuring and the distribution of …
Land, property rights, and planning in Japan: Institutional Design and Institutional Change in Land Management
Although clearly a key institutional framework that structures planning systems, there has been remarkably little attention by planning historians to the comparative study of institutions of property rights in land as a factor shaping approaches to urban planning. Conversely, planning has clearly functioned as a key site of institutional innovation shaping the evolution of property rights. This relationship between planning and property rights de…
Neighborhood Streets as Meaningful Spaces: Claiming Rights to Shared Spaces in Tokyo
The focus of this paper is the strategies of civic actors in a central Tokyo neighborhood to claim a voice in managing changes to their community and creating shared meanings for neighborhood streets and public spaces. In Yanaka an active community movement has worked to protect and improve shared community spaces by celebrating them as a historic legacy and a shared community resource, investing new and more complex values and claims on shared s…
Towards Livable Communities in Japan? Population Decline and the Changing Context of Place-making
A major question for the future of the environment of Japan - understood here both as natural environment and living environment - is whether pressures of population decline will prompt a more general adoption of quality-of-place and quality-of-environment strategies for local place making and place survival. A combination of very low birthrates (common to most developed countries), and an unwillingness to allow large-scale immigration (in which …
Living Cities in Japan
Living Cities in Japan: Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments
The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century
During the twentieth century, Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into one of the world's largest industrial powers and most highly urbanised countries. Interestingly, while Japanese governments and planners borrowed carefully from the planning ideas and methods of many other countries, Japanese urban planning, urban governance and cities developed very differently from those of other developed countries. Japan's distinctiv…
Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945 (review)
Reviewed by: Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945 André Sorensen (bio) Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945. Edited by Carola Hein, Jeffry M. Diefendorf, and Ishida Yorifusa. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2003. xvi, 274 pages. $60.00. It has long been a safe justification for studies on Japanese city planning to suggest that there is a dearth of research about the role of the state in shaping urban growth and change in Japan, as there are…
Conflict, consensus or consent: Implications of Japanese land readjustment practice for developing countries
Land Readjustment, Urban Planning and Urban Sprawl in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area
This paper examines the role of land readjustment (LR) projects in suburban planning and land development in a case-study area in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. LR projects have been the most important planning tool in Japan, yet the results of their use to develop over 30 per cent of Japanese urban areas have been little examined. The paper challenges the conventional wisdom that LR projects are an effective means of preventing urban sprawl. Throu…
Conflict, consensus or consent: Implications of Japanese land readjustment practice for developing countries
Land Readjustment, Urban Planning and Urban Sprawl in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area
This paper examines the role of land readjustment (LR) projects in suburban planning and land development in a case-study area in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. LR projects have been the most important planning tool in Japan, yet the results of their use to develop over 30 per cent of Japanese urban areas have been little examined. The paper challenges the conventional wisdom that LR projects are an effective means of preventing urban sprawl. Throu…
Urban Renaissance as Intensification: Building Regulation and the Rescaling of Place Governance in Tokyo’s High-rise Manshon Boom
During the past decade, Tokyo has seen a massive building boom, despite a prolonged economic slump since 1990. Since the 1980s, central government has enacted a steady stream of building code changes that allow much larger buildings. This paper argues that the recent wave of private investment in high-rise intensification has been instigated by these changes to building regulations, so that the form of urban restructuring and the distribution of …
Uneven Processes of Institutional Change: Path Dependence, Scale and the Contested Regulation of Urban Development in Japan
This article contributes to the understanding of institutional change in urban governance through an analysis of ongoing conflicts over the regulation of development in Japanese cities. A typology of institutional change processes helps to show that while change at central and local government scales have been transformative of the institutional frameworks of land planning and land development, they are deeply contradictory in their trajectories …
Neighborhood Streets as Meaningful Spaces: Claiming Rights to Shared Spaces in Tokyo
The focus of this paper is the strategies of civic actors in a central Tokyo neighborhood to claim a voice in managing changes to their community and creating shared meanings for neighborhood streets and public spaces. In Yanaka an active community movement has worked to protect and improve shared community spaces by celebrating them as a historic legacy and a shared community resource, investing new and more complex values and claims on shared s…
Periurbanization as the institutionalization of place: The case of Japan
Land, property rights, and planning in Japan: Institutional Design and Institutional Change in Land Management
Although clearly a key institutional framework that structures planning systems, there has been remarkably little attention by planning historians to the comparative study of institutions of property rights in land as a factor shaping approaches to urban planning. Conversely, planning has clearly functioned as a key site of institutional innovation shaping the evolution of property rights. This relationship between planning and property rights de…
Periurbanization as the institutionalization of place: The case of Japan
Evolving Property Rights in Japan: Patterns and Logics of Change
Property rights in land are often regarded as among the most inflexible of the institutional structures that shape urban change, particularly when enshrined in a written constitution. This paper argues that the meaning and specification of property rights in the city are continually contested and in flux and that the evolving practice of city planning is a significant element that contributes to change. A better understanding of the mechanisms of…
Land Readjustment, Urban Planning and Urban Sprawl in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area
This paper examines the role of land readjustment (LR) projects in suburban planning and land development in a case-study area in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. LR projects have been the most important planning tool in Japan, yet the results of their use to develop over 30 per cent of Japanese urban areas have been little examined. The paper challenges the conventional wisdom that LR projects are an effective means of preventing urban sprawl. Throu…
Conflict, consensus or consent: Implications of Japanese land readjustment practice for developing countries
The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century
During the twentieth century, Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into one of the world's largest industrial powers and most highly urbanised countries. Interestingly, while Japanese governments and planners borrowed carefully from the planning ideas and methods of many other countries, Japanese urban planning, urban governance and cities developed very differently from those of other developed countries. Japan's distinctiv…
Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945 (review)
Reviewed by: Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945 André Sorensen (bio) Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945. Edited by Carola Hein, Jeffry M. Diefendorf, and Ishida Yorifusa. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2003. xvi, 274 pages. $60.00. It has long been a safe justification for studies on Japanese city planning to suggest that there is a dearth of research about the role of the state in shaping urban growth and change in Japan, as there are…
Living Cities in Japan
Living Cities in Japan: Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments
Towards Livable Communities in Japan? Population Decline and the Changing Context of Place-making
A major question for the future of the environment of Japan - understood here both as natural environment and living environment - is whether pressures of population decline will prompt a more general adoption of quality-of-place and quality-of-environment strategies for local place making and place survival. A combination of very low birthrates (common to most developed countries), and an unwillingness to allow large-scale immigration (in which …
Neighborhood Streets as Meaningful Spaces: Claiming Rights to Shared Spaces in Tokyo
The focus of this paper is the strategies of civic actors in a central Tokyo neighborhood to claim a voice in managing changes to their community and creating shared meanings for neighborhood streets and public spaces. In Yanaka an active community movement has worked to protect and improve shared community spaces by celebrating them as a historic legacy and a shared community resource, investing new and more complex values and claims on shared s…
From Participation to the Right to the City: Democratic Place Management at the Neighbourhood Scale in Comparative Perspective
Public participation processes have become increasingly important as a means of structuring the relationship between states and citizens in managing processes of urban change, but continue to fall short of achieving significant democratization of urban governance. Through an examination of three bottom-up processes of citizen engagement in managing urban change at the scale of urban neighbourhoods—Bellavista in Santiago, Chile, Yanaka in Tokyo, J…
Urban Renaissance as Intensification: Building Regulation and the Rescaling of Place Governance in Tokyo’s High-rise Manshon Boom
During the past decade, Tokyo has seen a massive building boom, despite a prolonged economic slump since 1990. Since the 1980s, central government has enacted a steady stream of building code changes that allow much larger buildings. This paper argues that the recent wave of private investment in high-rise intensification has been instigated by these changes to building regulations, so that the form of urban restructuring and the distribution of …
Land, property rights, and planning in Japan: Institutional Design and Institutional Change in Land Management
Although clearly a key institutional framework that structures planning systems, there has been remarkably little attention by planning historians to the comparative study of institutions of property rights in land as a factor shaping approaches to urban planning. Conversely, planning has clearly functioned as a key site of institutional innovation shaping the evolution of property rights. This relationship between planning and property rights de…
Megacities: Urban Form, Governance, and Sustainability
Evolving Property Rights in Japan: Patterns and Logics of Change
Property rights in land are often regarded as among the most inflexible of the institutional structures that shape urban change, particularly when enshrined in a written constitution. This paper argues that the meaning and specification of property rights in the city are continually contested and in flux and that the evolving practice of city planning is a significant element that contributes to change. A better understanding of the mechanisms of…
Uneven Processes of Institutional Change: Path Dependence, Scale and the Contested Regulation of Urban Development in Japan
This article contributes to the understanding of institutional change in urban governance through an analysis of ongoing conflicts over the regulation of development in Japanese cities. A typology of institutional change processes helps to show that while change at central and local government scales have been transformative of the institutional frameworks of land planning and land development, they are deeply contradictory in their trajectories …
Taking path dependence seriously: An historical institutionalist research agenda in planning history
This paper outlines an historical institutionalist (HI) research agenda for planning history. HI approaches to the understanding of institutions, path dependence, positive feedback effects in public policy, and patterned processes of institutional change offer a robust theoretical framework and a valuable set of conceptual and analytic tools for the analysis of continuity and change in public policy. Yet, to date, there has been no systematic eff…
Periurbanization as the institutionalization of place: The case of Japan
Periurbanization as the institutionalization of place: The case of Japan
Institutions and Urban Space: Land, Infrastructure, and Governance in the Production of Urban Property
This paper develops an historical institutionalist approach to municipal governance, infrastructure, and property institutions, suggesting that the dense matrices of institutions in cities are co-evolutionary and path dependent. Property, infrastructure, and governance institutions play a central role in regulating capital investment in cities, structure urban change, protect and structure property’s meaning and value, and demonstrate enduringly …
Handbook of Megacities and Megacity-Regions
Can We Retrofit Suburban Arterials: Analyzing the Walkability and Retrofit Potential of Four Toronto Region Corridors
Problem, research strategy, and findings The multilane arterial roadway is a central feature of post–World War II (WWII) suburbs that challenges efforts to create more transit-oriented regions. Retrofitting suburbs is an important planning goal, but research examining the urban form of arterials and their potential for transformation has been scarce. We analyzed four suburban corridors in the Toronto (Canada) region developed during different per…
Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940 by Alice Y. Tseng
Reviewed by: Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940 by Alice Y. Tseng Andre Sorensen (bio) Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868–1940. By Alice Y. Tseng. University of Hawai'i Press, 2018. xvii, 269 pages. $68.00, cloth. Premised on the idea that urban scholarship of Japan is overly biased toward a focus on Tokyo, Alice Tseng has set out to correct the balance with this volume on public initiatives …
Rupture, Planning, and Institutional Transformation
Political science (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Geography (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (9 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (8 works) · Economic geography (7 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Urban planning (7 works)