International Workshop
COMPARATIVE STUDIES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN CITY IN JAPAN AND EUROPE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF URBAN GOVERNANCE, 1905-1935
14/15 March 2019, Humboldt University Berlin, Historical Institute
Friedrichstraße 191/193, Room 5028
Program
Thursday, 14 March
19.00 Get together at Restaurant “Kreuzberger Weltlaterne”
Friday, 15 March
08.30 – 9.00 Introduction and conceptional issues
Takahito Mori (Hitotsubashi University) & Rainer Liedtke (University of Regensburg)
09.00 – 9.45 Prof. Satoshi Baba (Tokyo University)
The birth of town and regional planning in Japan and the impacts from the Western countries
Comment by Christoph Bernhardt (Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung) followed by discussion
9.45 – 10.30 Prof. Shuichi Takashima (Aoyama Gakuin University)
The European influence on the first subway in Tokyo
Comment by Prof. Ralf Roth (Goethe University Frankfurt) followed by discussion
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30 Prof. Katja Schmidtpott (University of Bochum)
On the reception of National Socialist housing policy in Japan, 1933-45
Prof. Takahito Mori (Hitotsubashi University)
From Hamburg to Osaka: Development of „Kosei-Undo“ on the model of „Kraft durch Freude“.
Combined Comment by Prof. Rainer Liedtke (University of Regensburg) followed by discussion
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch Break
13.30 – 15.00 Prof. Sheldon Garon (Princeton University)
The Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan and the U.S. Learned from the Bombing of Britain and Germany in the Second World War
Comment by Prof. Alexander Nützenadel (Humboldt-University Berlin) followed by discussion
Julia Mariko Jacoby (Max Planck Institute for History, Berlin)
Disaster preparedness in Japan and global transfer of knowledge, 1890- 1970
Comment by Prof. Sheldon Garon (Princeton University) followed by discussion
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 – 16.15 Dr. Beate Löffler (University of Duisburg)
From teaching ‚progress‘ to learning ‚tradition‘? German glances at Japan’s built environment (1900-1940)
Comment by Prof. Dieter Schott (Technical University Darmstadt) followed by discussion
16.15 – 16.45 Final Discussion
In cooperation with: Universität Regensburg, Gesellschaft für Stadtgeschichte und Urbanisierungsforschung; Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung; Humboldt-Universität Berlin