{"id":6720,"date":"2017-08-09T09:27:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T08:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/?p=6720"},"modified":"2021-05-19T17:06:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T16:06:37","slug":"lessons-from-tokyo-making-space-for-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/international-exchange\/lessons-from-tokyo-making-space-for-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Tokyo: making space for culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;How can cities continue to grow and attract investment while preserving their cultural infrastructure \u2013 and the vibrancy and diversity that makes them unique?&#8221;<\/em> To answer this global urban question, Tokyo is one of 12 cities featured in the World Cities Culture Forum &#8216;Making Space for Culture&#8217; handbook, with lessons learnt from the Kagurazaka neighbourhood revitalisation available for other cities.<\/p>\n<p>The case study outlines how Kagurazaka, a Tokyo neighbourhood, was in danger of losing its unique status as a centre of Japanese traditional culture. Tokyo Metropolitan Government now funds a yearly festival, Kagurazaka Street Stage O-edo Tour, designed to raise public engagement with traditional arts and revitalise the area.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about the Kagurazaka case study, and others, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcitiescultureforum.com\/news\/how-can-cities-make-space-for-culture\">WCCF website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cities Culture Forum consists of 32 global cities, convened to share research and intelligence, and explore the vital role of culture in their future prosperity. Tokyo was a founding member of the forum at its inaugural summit during London 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How can cities continue to grow and attract investment while preserving their cultural infrastructure \u2013 and the vibrancy and diversity that makes them unique?&#8221; To answer this global urban question, Tokyo is one of 12 cities featured in the World Cities Culture Forum &#8216;Making Space for Culture&#8217; handbook, with lessons learnt from the Kagurazaka neighbourhood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[29,25,48],"class_list":["post-6720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-exchange","tag-city-branding","tag-city-diplomacy","tag-tokyo-2020"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9600,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions\/9600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}