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Resilient Toyama Resilient Toyama Toyama Vision 2050 Community, Nature & Innovation Live Toyama, Love Toyama Community, Nature & Innovation for the Future R E S I L I E N T T O Y A M A Table of Contents Letter from the Mayor 7 Letter from the Chief Resilience Officer 8 Letter from the President, 100 Resilient Cities 9 I. Executive Summary 10 1. Toyama’s Resilience Vision 11 2. Toyama’s Resilient DNA: People, Infrastructure, Prosperity, Environment 14 3. Toyama’s Resilience Challenge 17 II. Resilient Toyama 18 1. City Facts 19 2. Modern Roots in Traditional Society 22 3. Toyama in World War II 25 4. Municipal Consolidation 25 5. Solutions to Shocks and Stresses 28 i. Aging and Declining Population 29 ii. Compact City Strategy 30 iii. Flooding 34 iv. Neighborhood Disaster Prevention Associations 34 v. Waste Management 35 6. National and International Resilience Policy Awards 35 III. A New Strategy 36 1. 100RC Journey 37 2. Defining Resilience 39 3. Toyama’s Resilience Strategy Development Process 40 4. Organizational Structure 40 IV. Initiatives 46 1. Comprehensive Smart City Initiative 50 2. Public Transportation Initiative 52 3. Water / Waste / Energy Management Initiative 54 4. Disaster Preparation & Response Initiative 56 5. Integration of City Center to Seacoast Area Initiative 60 6. Rural Toyama & Agricultural Sustainability Initiative 62 7. Business Investment Initiative 66 8. Tourism Initiative 68 9. Citizen Health, Wellbeing & Participation Initiative 72 10. Conservation & Environmental Education Initiative 78 R E S I L V. Implementation and Future I Resilience Delivery Structures 80 E N T T VI. Acknowledgements 82 O Y A Mount Tsurugi, 2,999 m (9,839 ft) Joseph© Dr. Runzo-Inada M VII. Current Official Toyama City Policy Plans 86 A 04 05 Letter from the Mayor Our city is located in the center of Japan on the Toyama was selected as one of the 100 Resilient Japan Sea. With a population of approximately Cities in December 2014. Under the direction of CRO 420,000, the city is blessed with beautiful nature, Dr. Joseph Runzo-Inada we have re-examined and extending from the 1,000 meter deep rich marine realigned current city development policies within a waters of Toyama Bay to the 3,000 meter crest of the future resilience framework and vision for sustainable Northern Japan Alps, a remarkable vertical span of development and natural and manmade crisis some 4,000 meters. Famous for its pharmaceutical management, based on strong cooperation from a industry and advanced city planning, Toyama is a broad range of stakeholders and NGOs and IGOs. vibrant regional hub on the Sea of Japan with a wide Our “Toyama Resilience Strategy”, the first of its kind variety of industries complementing its long cultural in Japan under the 100 Resilient Cities program, will and artistic history. be responsible for ensuring cross-cutting approaches to city policies and strategies. The city will continue When I had the privilege of being elected Mayor to robustly cooperate with citizens and the business of Toyama in 2005, we set out to revitalize the community to create our future resilience strategies city and tackle multiple issues such as the crucial through our collective strength and we especially challenges in Japanese society of depopulation, a hope this can be a model for other cities. low child birth rate and an ultra-aging society, as well as the deterioration of public transportation I would like to deeply thank 100RC and especially caused by excess dependency on cars, suburban Michael Berkowitz for their invaluable support in this flight, and decreased residential density in the city process. Finally, I would like to extend my gratitude center. Through city-wide discussions and more than to all our citizens, business partners, advisors and 200 two hour meetings with citizens, we devised city staff members who participated in this strategy a compact city plan to meet these challenges. development. Announced in 2008, our compact city plan, which began with the key element of revitalizing public transportation and then moved step-by-step to related projects, has achieved clear success in reversing suburban flight, rebuilding our public transportation ridership and reinvigorating the city. Mayor Masashi Mori R E S I L I E N T T O Y A M A 06 07 Letter from the Chief Resilience Officer Letter from the President, 100 Resilient Cities The success of Toyama’s Resilience Strategy would support and to Horng Dar Lim, Associate Director in On behalf of the entire 100 Resilient Cities family, I Through the commitment and leadership of Mayor not have been possible without the unstinting efforts the Singapore Office, who has aided and encouraged want to congratulate the city of Toyama and Mayor Mori and Chief Resilience Officer Dr. Runzo- of the many dedicated people committed to helping us at every turn. Arup is our 100RC Strategy Partner Mori, on the release of the city’s Resilience Strategy, a Inada, the city has already begun the hard work of Toyama realize its resilience vision. and Laura Frost has been the key person helping us major milestone for the city and 100 RC’s partnership institutionalizing resilience. With a robust resilience in the formulation and formatting of this Strategic with it. This document builds on Toyama pioneering program that incorporates resilience into strategic Our resilience journey began in December 2013 in Plan report. past efforts as it lays out an extraordinary vision planning for the city, and the full political support of Marseilles at the OECD Roundtable of Mayors, where of urban resilience for its future. Importantly, this all city sectors. Mayor Mori and I presented the Toyama plan for We have learned from many cities in the 100RC Strategy is also a first for Japan and we hope it will sustainability. Afterwards, the Rockefeller Foundation network and I especially want to thank these fellow serve to inspire other cities in this great nation to Extensive engagement with the business and representative suggested that Toyama would be ideal CROs for their inspiration and advice: Timothy learn from Toyama’s example and work to build a NGO community have also laid the foundation for for the 100 Resilient Cities initiative and encouraged Burroughs (Berkeley), Grant Ervin (Pittsburgh), Mike more resilient future. successful implementation, and for enriching the the Mayor to apply. At the ensuing 2014 World Cities Gillooly (Christchurch), Jeff Hebert (New Orleans), lives of all who live in Toyama. Long ago, the city Summit in Singapore, I met with Michael Berkowitz Mike Mendonca (Wellington), Oscar Santiago Set between sea and sky, along the Sea of Japan and recognized the opportunities it could unlock through who generously gave me his time to (I might add Uribe Rocha (Medellin), Purnomo Dwi Sasongko, the Northern Japanese Alps, Toyama boasts a rich collaboration with the private sector, especially persuasively) explain the intent and value of the (Semarang), Sarah Toy (Bristol), and Kamlesh environmental heritage along with its storied cultural as it builds towards a future of growth and shared program. We immediately assembled an application Yagnik, (Surat). We have also been fortunate to and artistic traditions. It also has a history of having prosperity. committee representing key city departments and receive exceptional advice from representatives of to overcome immense challenges and recreating began generating enthusiasm for the program. 100RC Platform Partners, and I want to particularly itself into the modern technological hub it is today. Through his energetic leadership in Toyama, and thank Senior Director Tony Newling of Microsoft, VP As it contends with its current shocks, such as the 100RC network, Dr. Runzo-Inada has guided the No comprehensive plan for a city’s future can be Business Development Cities for Veolia, Christine flooding, and the severe stresses relating to its aging city to this major moment. His collaboration with successful without effective, visionary leadership and Rodwell; Director Thomas Kessler of Swiss Re, and population, low birth rate, and resulting reduced tax other CROs and partners in the 100RC network have I cannot say enough how fortunate Toyama is to have VP Dr. Ingeborg Rocker of Dassault Systems. As base, Toyama draws on this past of perseverance and already proven that Toyama will be a major part one of the most respected mayors in Japan, Mayor a World Bank Partner City, Toyama has greatly regeneration. of the urban resilience movement to realizing real Masashi Mori. Now beginning his fourth consecutive benefited in our resilience planning from the Bank change world-wide. 4-year term, it is Mayor Mori’s inspirational compact and for this we are especially grateful to Philip Karp, Toyama’s Strategy makes its people and history Though this strategy represents the end of the city vision which has laid the foundation for Toyama’s Lead Knowledge Management Specialist for Social, central to its resilience and to the four elements strategic planning process in Toyama, it is only the success and garnered national and international Urban and Rural Resilience, and Senior Operations around which the city’s resilience is structured: beginning of the exciting work to come in the months acclaim. Among senior city officials, Vice Mayor Officer Dan Levine, Tokyo Center, Social, Urban, and Resilient Infrastructure; Resilient Prosperity; Resilient and years ahead. And 100 Resilient Cities’ partnership Masayoshi Imamoto and Director General Shinji Rural Resilience. People; and Resilient Environment.
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