Publications

Authored and Edited Books

  • Imai, H. (forthcoming)  Everyday Yokohama  – Neighbourhood between Decay and Renewal (PALGRAVE)
  • Imai, H. and M. Ursic (2020)  Creativity in Tokyo  – Revitalizing a Matured City  (Palgrave Macmillan)
  • Imai, H. and M. Gibert-Flutre (Eds.) (2020) Asian Alleyways: an Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization (Amsterdam University Press)
  • Imai, H. (2017) Tokyo Roji – The Diversity and Versatility of Alleys in a City in Transition, Routledge,
  • Jaeger, H. (2006) Roji Research – Diversity of Alleyways in Kyoto (Kyoto University)
  • Peer-reviewed Papers and Book Chapters
  • Imai, H. and Yao Ji (2022) Creative Revitalization and COVID-19: Lessons from Ishinomaki, Japan, Asian Studies, pp.  
  • Imai, H. and Yao Ji (2021) Social Capital, Innovation, and Local Resilience: Tokyo Neighbourhood in Times of Crisis, Asian Studies, pp. 283-313. 
  • Imai, H. (2020) Poverty in a wealthy Megacity: Stories from Tokyo’s Alleys after the Bubble Burst, in International Handbook on Megacities and Megacity-regions, edited by Labbe, D. and A. Sorensen, Routledge.
  • Imai, H. (2017) Back to the City – Sustainability and Creativity as a new Approach to revive the City from Inside, in Bremm, D. and L. Curtright (Eds) Sustainability and the City: Urban Poetics and Politics,pp.113-142.
  • Imai, H. (2013) The Liminal Nature of Alleyways: Understanding the Alleyway Roji as a ‘Boundary’ between Past and Present, Journal Cities (h-index 62), Special Issue on Urban Borderlands, October 2013, pp.58–66.
  • Imai, H. (2012) Balancing Urban Revitalization, Tourism and Development Issues in times of Crisis -Kawagoe’s historical district as self-sustaining and resilient community, Journal Contemporary Japan (h-index 12), 24, 2, pp. 149-178.
  • Imai, H. (2010) Sensing Tokyo’s Alleyways: everyday life and sensory encounters in the alleyways of a City in Transition, in Devorah Kalekin-Fishman and Kelvin E. Y. Low (Eds.) Everyday Life in Asia: Social Perspectives on the Senses Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, pp. 64-84
  • Imai, H. (2008) Senses on the move: multi-sensory encounters with street vendors in the Japanese urban alleyway roji, Journal Senses and the Society (h-index 10), Volume 3, 3, 329-339. Available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/174589308X331350

Non-refereed Papers and Book Chapters

  • Imai, H. (2021) Tokyo Above and Below – The Neglected and Poor of the City, in Radovic, D. Tokyo Diversities, A+U, Architecture and Urbanism Magazine, Tokyo: Shinkenchiku-Sha Co.
  • Imai, H. (2020) Alleyways between Urban Renewal, Cultural Innovation and Social Integration? The Case of Tokyo and Seoul, in Asian Alleyways: an Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization, edited by Imai, H. and M. Gibert-Flutre, Amsterdam University Press.
  • Imai, H. (2020) Introduction, in Asian Alleyways: an Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization, edited by Imai, H. and M. Gibert-Flutre, Amsterdam University Press.
  • Imai, H. (2020) The Future of Asian Alleyways: Towards Integrated and Diverse Alleyways, in Asian Alleyways: an Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization, edited by Imai, H. and M. Gibert-Flutre, Amsterdam University Press.
  • Imai, H. (2019) Yokohama – Homeless, Artists and the New Urban, GIS Journal, Volume 1, pp. 69-74.
  • Imai, H. (2018) Urban Ordinaries – Vernacular Landscapes as Places of Diversity, Difference and Displacement, IPHS Conference, Yokohama,  Proceedings of the 18th International Planning History Society Conference, Volume 18 No 1 (2018), p. 134 , https://doi.org/10.7480/iphs.2018.1
  • Imai, H. (2018) Marginalized, Rediscovered and Commodified – The Perception of Alleyways in Contemporary Tokyo, GIS Journal, Volume 1, pp.63-72.
  • Imai, H. (2017) Between Urban Poetics, Politics and Creativity – Urban Commons and Ordinary Places, GIS Journal, Volume 1, pp.117-124.
  • Imai, H. (2016) Situated Urban Rituals – Rethinking the meaning and practice of micro culture in cities in East Asia and Japan, GIS Journal, forthcoming, Volume 1, pp.41-86.
  • Imai, H. (2015) Preserving Tokyo’s Alleyways: from marginal to neighbourhood place?, GIS Journal, forthcoming, Volume 1, pp.1-18.
  • Imai, H. (2014), Kidscape Jiyugaoka, in Radovic, Darko (Eds) Jiyugaoka, Tokyo: ichii shobou, pp.40.
  • Imai, H. (2013), Dérive of Senses, MnM Workbook 2, Tokyo Dérive – In search of Urban Intensities,  Radovic, Darko (Eds.) Tokyo: ichii shobou, pp.34-39.
  • Imai, H. (2012), Small Urban Niches Rediscovered: Defining Tokyo’s cultural and alternative landscape, in Small Tokyo,  Radovic, Darko and Davisi Boontharm (Eds.) Tokyo: ichii shobou, pp.88-95.
  • Jaeger, H. (2008) Resonances of the roji: Shifting Public Space and Urban Life in between Low and High-rise, In Another Tokyo – Places and Practices of Urban Resistance, edited by Darko Radovic, Tokyo: ichii shobou, 2008, pp. 27-28.

Reviews

  • Imai, H. (2020) Between Macro and Micro: Historical Perspective on the Urban in Japan, Journal of Urban History (January 2020, 1-5), https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144219899385. (h-index 23)
  • Imai, H. (2019), Nikro, Norman Saadi & Sonja Hegasy, The Social Live of Memory: Violence, Trauma, and Testimony in Lebanon and Morocco (Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict), International Sociology Review (ISR) (h-index 17) March 2019 8: 3-6, DOI: 10.1177/0268580919830920
  • Imai, H. (2016) Abdoumaliq Simone, Jakarta -Drawing the City Near,  International Sociology Review (ISR), (h-index 17) March 2016 31: 235-237 http://iss.sagepub.com/content/31/2/235?etoc

Editorial

  • Imai, H. (forthcoming)Navigating and Understanding Vernacular Landscapes in Global Cities: Everyday Practices, Commodification and Contestation, Regional and Urban Development, RC21, XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Special Issue (forthcoming)
  • Jaeger, H. (2008) Workshop YaNeSen – a Selection of Essays (Eds),  In Another Tokyo – Places and Practices of Urban Resistance, Darko Radovic, Tokyo: ichii shobou, 2008, pp.17-27.

Upcoming

  • Imai, H. and F. Purkarthofer (forthcoming) Gentrification, Revitalization or what: Changing Scapes, Scales and Spaces in Japan. Journal Cities.
  • Imai, H. (forthcoming) The Transformation of Tokyo’s Fish Market’s Identity: Tokyo 2020, Toyosu and Tsukiji. Journal Urban Studies.
  • Imai, H. and Yao Ji (forthcoming) The Commercialization of Urban Creativity.forthcoming.