路地　研究　谷根千

program-poster (pdf, 83 KB)

Between the lines: situating the local community between Low and High-rise – The case of Tsukudajima, Tokyo

Walking the urban alleyway in Kyoto

The PhD thesis “Resonance of the roji- inscribing memory through walking the urban backstreets” is concerned with the narrative nature of the daily activities taking place in the urban backstreet. The research will investigate the importance of the urban backstreet roji within the urban fabric, and consider the ways in which the history and ambitions of the local community become meaningful entwined in that space. The backstreet type roji is chosen to embody the relation between collective memory and place-making. Two address the relationship of the dynamic activities in the roji and inscribed past and present, the PhD research and the fieldwork in 2007 will be based on two approaches: (1) spatial-historical and (2) participant observation. The first approach will focus on the spatial evolution of the urban place of the roji in connection to the urban fabric of the contemporary Japanese city. The second approach will concentrate on the social evolution of the roji, through utilising tools and methods from ethnographic research.

ハイデ　イェガー、

２００７年０２月１５日

Resonances of the roji:
A study of urban streets as mediator of everyday life
in contemporary Tokyo, Japan