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Inequality and Urban Space: Social Atlas of Tokyo Metropolitan Area 1990-2010

Inequality and Urban Space: Social Atlas of Tokyo Metropolitan Area 1990-2010

Asakawa, Tatsuto
Hashimoto, Kenji
Hirahara, Yuki

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032851279
ISBN13: 9781032851273
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Asakawa, Hashimoto and Hirahara explores the widening inequality and its social consequences in Tokyo Metropolitan area by using two approaches, one from social class and social stratification theory and the other from urban sociology.

The book uses social atlases to visualize the socio-spatial structure of Tokyo, the most populous metropolitan area in the world using the analysis from the 1990, 2000 and 2010 National Census data. Until the 1970s, Japanese society had relatively small economic disparity between social classes. Today, Japan is a society of great inequality, with a huge number of people with low socio-economic status and many problems caused by poverty. The socio-spatial structure of thirty years of widening inequality in the metropolitan Tokyo area, which is fraught with many social problems, such as urban polarization, emergence of underclasses and health disparities are explored in this book. The structure and dynamics of class disparities among Tokyo Metropolitan area residents is also analyzed. Overall, this book visualizes three decades of widening inequality.

A vital resource for researchers, graduate students, undergraduates, urban policy makers and urban planners who are interested about Tokyo as a metropolis in East Asia and those keen on understanding the widening inequality and its social consequences in Tokyo Metropolitan area.

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