{"id":5000,"date":"2023-08-06T23:54:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T23:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2023-08-06T23:54:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T23:54:12","slug":"vision-and-practice-the-1967-robson-report-on-the-tokyo-metropolitan-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=5000","title":{"rendered":"Vision and practice: the 1967 Robson Report on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth article to be inspired by my PhD thesis has now been published in\u00a0<em>Planning Perspectives<\/em>. Besides\u00a0<em>Planning History\u00a0<\/em>(which has a US focus), the journal is the go-to place for historical research on urban planning. I thought this might be the best fit for my work on the 1967 report by Professor Robson, which I had become intrigued about during my studies. It took a while from jotting down <a href=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=4725\">first thoughts<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=4741\">presenting<\/a> at last year&#8217;s AAS to putting the manuscript through a total of three revisions &#8212; but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/02665433.2023.2241434\">here<\/a> it is! Also see my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Benjamin-Bansal\">ResearchGate<\/a>\u00a0profile to request the full text if you don&#8217;t have access.<\/p>\n<p>Abstract: This article critically evaluates a 1967 consultancy report on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) by Professor William A. Robson. Robson, a pioneer of public administration science based at the London School of Economics his whole academic life, provided an in-depth analysis of the state of the Japanese capital during its high-speed growth spurt and at the beginning of the socialist Minobe prefectural administration. While many of Robson&#8217;s assessments and criticisms were poignant, his report failed to appreciate contextual intricacies as well as Tokyo&#8217;s distinctive path of urban development. A re-reading of the report with this in mind expands our understanding of the Japanese capital&#8217;s postwar history more than 50 years after the report&#8217;s publication. Its critical assessment also contributes to our understanding of how urban knowledge \u2018travels\u2019 across geographies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"abstractKeywords\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth article to be inspired by my PhD thesis has now been published in\u00a0Planning Perspectives. Besides\u00a0Planning History\u00a0(which has a US focus), the journal is the go-to place for historical research on urban planning. I thought this might be the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=5000\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5001,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions\/5001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}