サブカルチャー的空間というグローバル・ランドスケー
プ：高円寺の事例より
Global Landscape of Subculture Spaces: The Case of Kōenji, Tokyo
This paper presents the neighbourhood Koenji, Tokyo to show how urban neighbourhoods in Japan are increasingly transformed by diverse and competing interests. Gentrified through the emergence of new forms of housing, public spaces and re-appropriated by different fields, the local community is re-interpreted by individuals, subcultures and new social movements to fit hybrid and multiple concepts of living and lifestyles. Drawing on ethnographic data, this paper investigates the kind of functions the community fulfilled in the past, the qualities of urban life that have been lost, changed or re-integrated. Providing multiple narratives of change, the paper’s main purpose is to critically reflect on the gentrification of the neighbourhood, arguing that similar cases exist in cities worldwide, including for example Berlin and Amsterdam, which should be studied and compared with each other to understand how different urban transformation processes affect the local community and everyday urban life at the micro-level
appearing 01/2021 in Japanese in 造園学会誌84-4号特集号執筆