{"id":8101,"date":"2019-05-10T14:18:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T13:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/?p=8101"},"modified":"2019-05-17T10:55:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T09:55:46","slug":"japan-urbanism-lessons-for-uk-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/international-exchange\/japan-urbanism-lessons-for-uk-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan urbanism: lessons for UK cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anthony Breach, an analyst at the UK&#8217;s Centre for Cities think tank, recently visited Tokyo and Miyagi Prefecture through JLGC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/activities-and-events\/japan-study-tour\/\">Japan Study Tour<\/a>&nbsp;to find out more about how cities function in one of the most urbanised countries on the planet \u2013 and what the UK can learn from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During April and May, Anthony posted a series of blogs summarising lessons from the study tour for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centreforcities.org\/blog\/what-does-japan-tell-us-about-the-potential-for-fiscal-devolution\/\">local government funding and finance<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centreforcities.org\/blog\/is-a-hometown-tax-the-answer-to-britains-regional-economic-inequality\/\">Japan\u2019s economic geography (hometown tax)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centreforcities.org\/blog\/can-tokyo-show-us-how-to-solve-britains-housing-shortage\/\">housing policy in Tokyo<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JLGC does not take responsibility for the content of external websites. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Breach, an analyst at the UK&#8217;s Centre for Cities think tank, recently visited Tokyo and Miyagi Prefecture through JLGC&#8217;s Japan Study Tour&nbsp;to find out more about how cities function in one of the most urbanised countries on the planet \u2013 and what the UK can learn from them. During April and May, Anthony posted [&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":[18,15,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-jlgc","category-international-exchange","category-international-cooperation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101","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=8101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8113,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions\/8113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}