Ökonomischer und stadtstruktureller Wandel in der Global City Tôkyô: Von Rainhow Town über Bit Valley zur Silicon Alley

Economic and urban change in the Global City of Tôkyô: From Rainbow Town and Bit Valley to Silicon Alley.The pushing of deindustrialisation and tertiarisation by the bubble economy in the second half of the 1980s, the boom in the IT sector with the emergence of clusters in the central urban districts in the 1990s, processes of reurbanisation and recentralisation in the housing and office market with simultaneous intensifying of vertical exploitation of space since the end of the 1990s, and the challenges to urban planning in no longer used ports, industrial sites and goods Stations are the chief characterstics of the most recent transformation in the economy and urban structures in the central area of the Global City Tôkyô. Examples will be used to demonstrate the push-and-pull strategies of the actors from politics, administration and the private economy to direct this structural change and strengthen Tôkyô's economic position. revealing characteristics of urban governance in Japan.