仙台市を事例とした地域コミュニティについての一考察

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Recently the importance of local neighborhood community has been widely discussed in the variouscontexts, related to globalization/localization, decentralization, local autonomy, compact-city, socialsafety-net, social welfare, neighborhood government, aging society, but there is a fundamentalquestion about how to re-organize and re-vitalize the local neighborhood communication and activityunder the situation of individualization, urbanization, diversified lifestyles and values, intensified mobilityand fluidity, weakening neighborhood relations and developing the space of the virtual, whichare the conditions of human beings in modern city and society.The aim of this paper is to reconsider the possibility of local community based on the local, throughconsidering the case of the city of Sendai which is a regional city in Japan to reveal the recent situationsof local communities. This paper uses the term the local to distinguish it from "locality". While"locality" means a district or neighborhood, the site or scene of something, the position of a thing, thelocal is the basis or the focal point (in a sense the real) of representations of local area, culture, history,tradition, people, nature, environment etc., so that the identity as "biography" of the local area and peopleis constituted around it. This paper suggests the local as "the common" is a fundamental basis ofconstituting a local commun-ity.
秋田大学の論文
2004-03-31