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Citation Han Sun Sheng, ed. Relocation of Capital Function as a New Urban Strategy for Decongesting Major Metropolises. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Relocation of Capital Function as a New Urban Strategy for Decongesting Major Metropolises, 5-6 March 1996, Tokyo, Japan, UNCRD Proceedings Series, no. 12. Nagoya, Japan: United Nations Centre for Regional Development, 1996.


Title



Relocation of Capital Function as a New Urban Strategy for Decongesting Major Metropolises. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Relocation of Capital Function as a New Urban Strategy for Decongesting Major Metropolises, 5-6 March 1996, Tokyo, Japan

Year 1996
Editor
Han Sun Sheng UN Researcher, UNCRD, Nagoya, Japan
Material Type Conference Proceedings
Features  
Pages 196 p.
Relationships Part of

UNCRD Proceedings Series

Contents

 
p. 11-24 Relocation of the Capital as an Option Strategy to Decongest Large Metropolises

p. 25-30 Notes on the Transfer of the Capital Function

p. 33-57 Economic and Financial Costs of Overpopulation: Implications of the Relocation of Korea's Capital

p. 59-68 Approach to the Proposed Relocation of the Capital from an Economic Perspective

p. 71-80 Socioeconomic, Political, and Administrative Factors and Implications in Relocating the Capital Function from a Metropolis: Some Basic Questions and Relevant Experiences from the Americas

p. 81-88 Relocation of Capital Function within Thailand's Urban Development Policy

p. 89-102 Decentralization and Multiple National Land Structure: Views from the Local Area Toward the Moving of the Metropolitan Function and Power Transfer

p. 105-112 Technical and Engineering Aspects in Locational Choice for New Capital Function: On the Relocation and Redevelopment of the New Administrative Centre of Metropolis

p. 113-114 Earthquake Vulnerability of Tokyo and the Location of the New Capital

p. 119-130 Brasilia

p. 131-148 Canberra

p. 151-162 Seoul

p. 163-181 The "Randstad Holland"

Subjects CAPITAL TOWNS 14.04.03
TRAFFIC CONTROL 10.07.01
URBAN PLANNING 14.04.03
Abstract Sponsoring agencies: National Land Agency of Japan, United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Nihon Keizai Shinbun, Inc., Nikkei research Institute of Industry and Markets.

Organized into three parts:

I. Setting the Scene

II. The Economic, Social and Technical Aspects

III. Case Studies 

Control No. PS 12

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