dwellers in Mumbai or Dhaka are experiencing today. As imperfect as it is, this default model is of great relevance to rapidly developing megacities in other parts of the world – South Asia in particular. It could change our understanding of urbanization processes in general and the way we deal with slum rehabilitation in particular. Indeed, a closer understanding of Tokyo’s postwar urban history can help planners and policy-makers make choices about slum rehabilitation that rest on historical evidences rather than a preconception of what a modern city should look like. The dual structure theory revisited In development economics a dual economy usually refers to “the coexistence of modern and pre-modern elements within one economic system” (Kohama, 2007:22). As we will see, the dual structure concept can be applied to a range of other things in the context of Tokyo. For instance sociologist Koji Taira uses it to describe the unequal treatment of factory workers at both end of the subcontracting production spectrum, and Mary Brinton uses it to describe the unequal treatment of female laborers throughout our the production chain, from tiny home-based factories all the way up to flagship export-driven conglomerates.
dwellers in Mumbai or Dhaka are experiencing today. As imperfect as it is, this default model is of great relevance to rapidly developing megacities in other parts of the world – South Asia in particular. It could change our understanding of urbanization processes in general and the way we deal with slum rehabilitation in particular. Indeed, a closer understanding of Tokyo’s postwar urban history can help planners and policy-makers make choices about slum rehabilitation that rest on historical evidences rather than a preconception of what a modern city should look like. The dual structure theory revisited In development economics a dual economy usually refers to “the coexistence of modern and pre-modern elements within one economic system” (Kohama, 2007:22). As we will see, the dual structure concept can be applied to a range of other things in the context of Tokyo. For instance sociologist Koji Taira uses it to describe the unequal treatment of factory workers at both end of the subcontracting production spectrum, and Mary Brinton uses it to describe the unequal treatment of female laborers throughout our the production chain, from tiny home-based factories all the way up to flagship export-driven conglomerates.
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