+ Change in Japanese city and town centres,
+ Policies regarding city and town centres,
+ Recent challenges in major ci@es, and
+ BIDs discussion and expecta@on.
PAST + ‘YUI’-‐Together + Coopera@ves, associa@ons linked property owners and merchants together.
CHANGE + WTO dispute in 1990s and aboli@on of small shop protec@on policy
+ Never stopping suburbaniza@on
+ TMO (Town Management Organiza@on) + Integra@on of capital improvement and commercial support
+ Dependent on governmental subsidy
+ No subsidy = No ac@vi@es
+ It was clear that urban district management was cri@cal to keep, promote the city centers a\rac@veness.
+ Although the na@onal government has not introduced BIDs legisla@on, business and property owners started.
In the @me of fiscal austerity, TMO did not want to develop costly underground way, which is now managed by private district management organiza@on, SIO-‐SITE.
Alterna@ve thought using urban spaces. ‘Fragmenta@on of @me and space’ to let young ar@sts and women use this as their shop/studio.
Beau@ful YOTEI montain. A lot of investment came firstly from Australia, followed by Hong Kong, Singapore and other countries.
As foreign investment comes, they lost tradi@onal neighborhood structure that maintained their infrastructure.
+ Discussion started in 2011 when Hokkaido government promised to develop underground snow-‐melter on their main street. (They need to maintain it.)
+ Tradi@onal neighborhood organiza@on was almost dead since 1990s when former property owners lek and sold their land to foreign investors.
+ They needed new district management body that is accountable to new comers.
+ Steering commi\ees were always held in both Japanese/English.
+ Two kinds of assessment are discussed. 1) CID assessment for maintaining infrastructure. This is posi@oned as subs@tute for the tradi@onal neighborhood associa@on fee.
2) BID assessment for more proac@ve ac@vi@es such as promo@on, economic development.
Redevelopment projects in Umeda area Grand Front Umeda
Osaka Sta@on North Plaza, owned by the city managed by district management organiza@on.
Osaka Sta@on
Hankyu Umeda Sta@on
Subway Umeda
Subway Higashi-‐Umeda Hanshin
Umeda
Grand Front Osaka
Umekita District
Subway Nishi-‐Umeda
JR Kita-‐Shinchi
Subway Nakatsu
Hanshin Nakatsu
+ An idea of combina@on of na@onal law and local act.
+ Urban Renaissance Special Act – Urgent urban regenera@on area – Agreement on coopera@ve management of urban public spaces.
– No rule about ins@tu@on and fund Local BID Act
+ Assessment to property owners + Process of ins@tu@onalizing and authoriza@on + Special rights and requirement to management ins@tu@ons
+ Incen@ves
+ Japan will have at least 2 legalized BIDs soon. + This will lead more BIDs, and expect na@onal government to link this to na@onal urban planning framework.
+ BIDs must be a symbol of recent trend of localism in which people can decide and act for what they need.
+ Japan is in the phase of aging and shrinking. We need to be more crea@ve to make our ci@es add-‐ valued.
+ Localism and entrepreneurship We need more flexibility and entrepreneurship in urban management.
+ World level Accountability We need more accountability in neighborhood management, which BID could being.
+ Enthusiasm We need more enthusiasm in urban management to call more people and skills, which can be realized with BID's assessment as secured finance.
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