A J Jacobs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A J Jacobs |
| GIVEN NAMES | A J |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBS A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | East Carolina University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Japanese machizukuri and community engagement: History, method and practice , by Shigeru Satoh
Very few English language books have been published on Japanese community planning or neighborhood placemaking. For that reason alone, Shigeru Satoh’s volume, Japanese Machizukuri and Community Eng
Gateway to Pacific: Japanese-Americans and the remaking of San Francisco , by Meredith Oda
Gateway to Pacific: Japanese-Americans and the remaking of San Francisco, by Meredith Oda." Journal of Urban Affairs, 42(4), pp. 690–691
Uneven Development
Human settlements come in various shapes and sizes, ranging from sparsely populated rural areas to vast metropolitan regions with millions of residents which encompass hundreds of municipalities. They evolve within highly varied contexts and contain specific attributes, such as natural features, population densities, infrastructure, and proximity to other areas, which provide them with advantages and disadvantages as compared with other places. A…
Nested dependent city-regions: FDI, uneven development, and Slovakia’s Bratislava, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, and Zilina city-regions
Despite their growing dependence upon foreign direct investment, the growth trajectories of the postsocialist city-regions of Central Europe have remained tightly embedded in their national development contexts. Guided by nested city theory and drawing upon empirical data and the author’s field research, this article argues that Slovakia’s postsocialist state development approach has served to reinforce historical uneven development among the Bra…
The City as the Nexus Model: Bridging the State, Market, Societal, and Geospatial Contexts
Housing and Social Transition in Japan
The first paperback edition of a book originally published in 2007, Housing and Social Transition in Japan, edited by Yosuke Hirayama and Richard Ronald, remains a timely account of the socioeconom
Industrial Restructuring and Expanding Income Stratification: The Case of Japan’s Four Largest Major Metropolitan Areas, 1990–2007
Drawing inspiration from Bluestone and Harrison’s seminal book The Deindustrialization of America, this article examines the impact of industrial restructuring on Japan’s four largest major metropolitan areas (MMAs). Focusing upon (1) the bursting of the Japanese asset bubble in the early 1990’s, (2) trade friction with the West, and (3) a significant appreciation of the Japanese Yen relative to the currencies of its major industrial competitors,…
The Bratislava metropolitan region
Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America
Roppongi Crossing: The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District and the Reshaping of a Global City by Roman Cybriwsky
The Nested Global City-Region: Intermunicipal Income Stratification in the Tokyo Metropolitan Region, 1980-2007
This study investigates whether or not income stratification by place has widened within the Tokyo Metropolitan Region (TMR) over the past 30 years. Its analysis shows that although income stratification among the TMR's 228 municipalities has expanded noticeably since 1980, it has remained far less severe than that in America's three largest metropolitan regions, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Declining regional industrial employment, expand…
New York Longshoremen: Class and Power on the Docks
Postindustrial East Asian Cities: Innovation for Growth by Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima
Developmental state planning, sub-national nestedness, and reflexive public policymaking: Keys to employment growth in Saitama City, Japan
Uneven Development
Uneven development refers to the inequitable spatial distribution of wealth and/or economic growth within a city, a metropolitan area, a nation‐state, or globally. The term also represents the simultaneous occurrence of economic and wealth expansion in one area accompanied by disinvestment and/or expanding poverty in another area. Urban scholars frequently have measured uneven development statistically, through an examination of the geographic di…
Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World
Inter-Local Relations and Divergent Growth: The Detroit and Tokai Auto Regions, 1969 to 1996
Drawing on scholarly literature, descriptive data, and 142 face-to-face interviews with non-elected local officials, this article examines the relationship among political-economic context, inter-municipal relations, and spatial outcomes in the primary auto regions of the US (Detroit) and Japan (Tokai) between 1969 and 1996. It maintains that Detroit’s embedded context promoted inter-municipal relations that can best be termed competitive separat…
Federations of Municipalities: A Practical Alternative to Local Government Consolidations in Japan
This article examines the merits of Wide Area Federations of Municipalities (MFs) as a public service delivery alternative to local government consolidation in Japan. It argues that MFs provide localities with a reasonable option to mergers where amalgamations are politically or geographically impractical, such as in sparsely populated, mountainous, and agricultural areas. Conversely, it maintains that MFs are less practical, efficient, and commo…
Fighting Fans: Football Hooliganism as a World Phenomenon
Embedded Autonomy and Uneven Metropolitan Development: A Comparison of the Detroit and Nagoya Auto Regions, 1969-2000
This article compares the relationship between national embeddedness and metropolitan development in the Detroit and Nagoya auto regions. Based upon literature, descriptive data and in-depth interviews with 140 development officials in these 2 regions, it finds that, over the past 30 years, the US governmental system, its national approach to development and a lack of institutional support for metropolitan planning, have produced fiercely competi…
Devolving Authority and Expanding Autonomy in Japanese Prefectures and Municipalities
The English‐language scholarship generally describes Japan as a centralized developmental state. However, while “developmentalism” does describe Japan's strategic economic approach, “centralized” no longer accurately depicts its spatial development process. This article argues that local autonomy is not equivalent in Japan, but rather, varies based upon a jurisdiction's population size and economic base. Large cities, important employment centers…
Devolving Authority and Expanding Autonomy in Japanese Prefectures and Municipalities
The English‐language scholarship generally describes Japan as a centralized developmental state. However, while “developmentalism” does describe Japan's strategic economic approach, “centralized” no longer accurately depicts its spatial development process. This article argues that local autonomy is not equivalent in Japan, but rather, varies based upon a jurisdiction's population size and economic base. Large cities, important employment centers…
The Nested Global City-Region: Intermunicipal Income Stratification in the Tokyo Metropolitan Region, 1980-2007
This study investigates whether or not income stratification by place has widened within the Tokyo Metropolitan Region (TMR) over the past 30 years. Its analysis shows that although income stratification among the TMR's 228 municipalities has expanded noticeably since 1980, it has remained far less severe than that in America's three largest metropolitan regions, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Declining regional industrial employment, expand…
Federations of Municipalities: A Practical Alternative to Local Government Consolidations in Japan
This article examines the merits of Wide Area Federations of Municipalities (MFs) as a public service delivery alternative to local government consolidation in Japan. It argues that MFs provide localities with a reasonable option to mergers where amalgamations are politically or geographically impractical, such as in sparsely populated, mountainous, and agricultural areas. Conversely, it maintains that MFs are less practical, efficient, and commo…
Embedded Autonomy and Uneven Metropolitan Development: A Comparison of the Detroit and Nagoya Auto Regions, 1969-2000
This article compares the relationship between national embeddedness and metropolitan development in the Detroit and Nagoya auto regions. Based upon literature, descriptive data and in-depth interviews with 140 development officials in these 2 regions, it finds that, over the past 30 years, the US governmental system, its national approach to development and a lack of institutional support for metropolitan planning, have produced fiercely competi…
The City as the Nexus Model: Bridging the State, Market, Societal, and Geospatial Contexts
Nested dependent city-regions: FDI, uneven development, and Slovakia’s Bratislava, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, and Zilina city-regions
Despite their growing dependence upon foreign direct investment, the growth trajectories of the postsocialist city-regions of Central Europe have remained tightly embedded in their national development contexts. Guided by nested city theory and drawing upon empirical data and the author’s field research, this article argues that Slovakia’s postsocialist state development approach has served to reinforce historical uneven development among the Bra…
Developmental state planning, sub-national nestedness, and reflexive public policymaking: Keys to employment growth in Saitama City, Japan
Inter-Local Relations and Divergent Growth: The Detroit and Tokai Auto Regions, 1969 to 1996
Drawing on scholarly literature, descriptive data, and 142 face-to-face interviews with non-elected local officials, this article examines the relationship among political-economic context, inter-municipal relations, and spatial outcomes in the primary auto regions of the US (Detroit) and Japan (Tokai) between 1969 and 1996. It maintains that Detroit’s embedded context promoted inter-municipal relations that can best be termed competitive separat…
Industrial Restructuring and Expanding Income Stratification: The Case of Japan’s Four Largest Major Metropolitan Areas, 1990–2007
Drawing inspiration from Bluestone and Harrison’s seminal book The Deindustrialization of America, this article examines the impact of industrial restructuring on Japan’s four largest major metropolitan areas (MMAs). Focusing upon (1) the bursting of the Japanese asset bubble in the early 1990’s, (2) trade friction with the West, and (3) a significant appreciation of the Japanese Yen relative to the currencies of its major industrial competitors,…
The Bratislava metropolitan region
Fighting Fans: Football Hooliganism as a World Phenomenon
Embedded Autonomy and Uneven Metropolitan Development: A Comparison of the Detroit and Nagoya Auto Regions, 1969-2000
This article compares the relationship between national embeddedness and metropolitan development in the Detroit and Nagoya auto regions. Based upon literature, descriptive data and in-depth interviews with 140 development officials in these 2 regions, it finds that, over the past 30 years, the US governmental system, its national approach to development and a lack of institutional support for metropolitan planning, have produced fiercely competi…
Devolving Authority and Expanding Autonomy in Japanese Prefectures and Municipalities
The English‐language scholarship generally describes Japan as a centralized developmental state. However, while “developmentalism” does describe Japan's strategic economic approach, “centralized” no longer accurately depicts its spatial development process. This article argues that local autonomy is not equivalent in Japan, but rather, varies based upon a jurisdiction's population size and economic base. Large cities, important employment centers…
Inter-Local Relations and Divergent Growth: The Detroit and Tokai Auto Regions, 1969 to 1996
Drawing on scholarly literature, descriptive data, and 142 face-to-face interviews with non-elected local officials, this article examines the relationship among political-economic context, inter-municipal relations, and spatial outcomes in the primary auto regions of the US (Detroit) and Japan (Tokai) between 1969 and 1996. It maintains that Detroit’s embedded context promoted inter-municipal relations that can best be termed competitive separat…
Federations of Municipalities: A Practical Alternative to Local Government Consolidations in Japan
This article examines the merits of Wide Area Federations of Municipalities (MFs) as a public service delivery alternative to local government consolidation in Japan. It argues that MFs provide localities with a reasonable option to mergers where amalgamations are politically or geographically impractical, such as in sparsely populated, mountainous, and agricultural areas. Conversely, it maintains that MFs are less practical, efficient, and commo…
Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World
Uneven Development
Uneven development refers to the inequitable spatial distribution of wealth and/or economic growth within a city, a metropolitan area, a nation‐state, or globally. The term also represents the simultaneous occurrence of economic and wealth expansion in one area accompanied by disinvestment and/or expanding poverty in another area. Urban scholars frequently have measured uneven development statistically, through an examination of the geographic di…
Developmental state planning, sub-national nestedness, and reflexive public policymaking: Keys to employment growth in Saitama City, Japan
Postindustrial East Asian Cities: Innovation for Growth by Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima
Roppongi Crossing: The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District and the Reshaping of a Global City by Roman Cybriwsky
The Nested Global City-Region: Intermunicipal Income Stratification in the Tokyo Metropolitan Region, 1980-2007
This study investigates whether or not income stratification by place has widened within the Tokyo Metropolitan Region (TMR) over the past 30 years. Its analysis shows that although income stratification among the TMR's 228 municipalities has expanded noticeably since 1980, it has remained far less severe than that in America's three largest metropolitan regions, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Declining regional industrial employment, expand…
New York Longshoremen: Class and Power on the Docks
Industrial Restructuring and Expanding Income Stratification: The Case of Japan’s Four Largest Major Metropolitan Areas, 1990–2007
Drawing inspiration from Bluestone and Harrison’s seminal book The Deindustrialization of America, this article examines the impact of industrial restructuring on Japan’s four largest major metropolitan areas (MMAs). Focusing upon (1) the bursting of the Japanese asset bubble in the early 1990’s, (2) trade friction with the West, and (3) a significant appreciation of the Japanese Yen relative to the currencies of its major industrial competitors,…
The Bratislava metropolitan region
Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America
Housing and Social Transition in Japan
The first paperback edition of a book originally published in 2007, Housing and Social Transition in Japan, edited by Yosuke Hirayama and Richard Ronald, remains a timely account of the socioeconom
The City as the Nexus Model: Bridging the State, Market, Societal, and Geospatial Contexts
Uneven Development
Human settlements come in various shapes and sizes, ranging from sparsely populated rural areas to vast metropolitan regions with millions of residents which encompass hundreds of municipalities. They evolve within highly varied contexts and contain specific attributes, such as natural features, population densities, infrastructure, and proximity to other areas, which provide them with advantages and disadvantages as compared with other places. A…
Nested dependent city-regions: FDI, uneven development, and Slovakia’s Bratislava, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, and Zilina city-regions
Despite their growing dependence upon foreign direct investment, the growth trajectories of the postsocialist city-regions of Central Europe have remained tightly embedded in their national development contexts. Guided by nested city theory and drawing upon empirical data and the author’s field research, this article argues that Slovakia’s postsocialist state development approach has served to reinforce historical uneven development among the Bra…
Gateway to Pacific: Japanese-Americans and the remaking of San Francisco , by Meredith Oda
Gateway to Pacific: Japanese-Americans and the remaking of San Francisco, by Meredith Oda." Journal of Urban Affairs, 42(4), pp. 690–691
Japanese machizukuri and community engagement: History, method and practice , by Shigeru Satoh
Very few English language books have been published on Japanese community planning or neighborhood placemaking. For that reason alone, Shigeru Satoh’s volume, Japanese Machizukuri and Community Eng
Political science (17 works) · Geography (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Economic geography (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Economy (7 works) · Regional science (7 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (7 works)