Andre Sorensen

Books

• Sorensen, A. & J. Okata (eds.). (2011). Megacities, Urban Form, Governance, and Sustainability. Tokyo, Springer Verlag. 418 pages.
• Sorensen, A. & Funck, C. (eds.). (2009). Living Cities in Japan: Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments. London: Routledge, 283 pages, paperback edition.
• Sorensen, A. & Funck, C. (eds.). (2007). Living Cities in Japan: Citizens’ Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments. London: Routledge Nissan/Routledge Japan Studies, Series Editor J.A.A Stockwin,  283 pages.
• Sorensen, A., P. Marcotullio & J. Grant (eds.). (2004). Towards Sustainable Cities: East Asian, North American and European Perspectives. London: Ashgate, 308 pages.
• Sorensen A.  (2004). The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and planning from Edo to the twenty-first century. London: Routledge, 386 pages paperback edition.
• Sorensen A.  (2002). The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and planning from Edo to the twenty-first century. London: Routledge, Nissan/Routledge Japan Studies, Series Editor J.A.A Stockwin, 386 pages.

Refereed journal papers

• Sorensen, A. (2019). Tokaido Megalopolis: lessons from a shrinking mega-conurbation. International Planning Studies, 24(1)
• Friedmann, J., & Sorensen, A. (2019). City unbound: emerging mega-conurbations in Asia. International Planning Studies, 24(1), 1-12.
• Sorensen, A. (2018). Multiscalar governance and institutional change: critical junctures in European spatial planning. Planning Perspectives, 33(4), 615-632.
• Sorensen, A. (2018). ‘Institutions in urban space: Land, infrastructure and governance in the production of urban property.’ Planning Theory and Practice 19(1): 21-38.
• Sorensen, A. (2016). 'Periurbanization as the institutionalization of place: The case of Japan.' Cities 51: 1-7.
• Sorensen, A. and Hess, P. (2015) “Building Suburbs, Toronto Style: Institutions, planning, critical junctures, and continuity” Town Planning Review 84(4) 411-436 (50% Sorensen, 50 % Hess)
• Hess, P. and Sorensen, A. (2015) “Compact, Concurrent, And Contiguous: Smart Growth And 50 Years Of Residential Planning In The Toronto Region” Urban Geography 36(1) 127-151 (50% Hess, 50% Sorensen)
• Sorensen, A. (2015) “Taking Path Dependence Seriously: A historical institutional research agenda for planning history” Planning Perspectives, Published online February 2014
• Sorensen, A. (2011). Evolving Property Rights in Japan: Patterns and Logics of Change. Urban Studies, 48(3), 471-491.
• Sorensen, A. (2011). Uneven processes of institutional change: Path dependence, scale, and the contested regulation of urban development in Japan. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 35(4), 712-734.
• Sorensen, A. & Sagaris, L. (2010). From Participation to the Right to the City: Democratic place management at the neighbourhood scale in comparative perspective. Planning Practice and Research, 25(3), 297-316.
•  Sorensen, A. (2010). Land, property rights and planning in Japan: institutional design and institutional change in land management. Planning Perspectives, 25(3), 279-302.
•  Sorensen, A. (2010). Suburbs and Suburbanization. Encyclopaedia of Geography. Sage.
• Sorensen, A. (2010). Urban Sprawl. Encyclopaedia of Geography. Sage.
• Sorensen, A. (2010). Suburbs and Suburban Sprawl. Encyclopaedia of the Modern World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Sorensen, A., Fujii, S. & Okata, J. (2010). Urban Renaissance as Intensification: Deregulation and the Rescaling of Place Governance in Tokyo’s High-rise Building Boom. Urban Studies, 47(3), 556-584.
• Sorensen, A. (2009). Neighborhood Streets as Meaningful Spaces: Claiming Rights to Shared Spaces in Tokyo. City & Society, 21(2), 207-229.
• Sorensen, A. (2007). Liveable Cities in Japan: Population ageing and decline as vectors of change. International Planning Studies, 11(3/4), 225-242.
• Sorensen, A. (2006). Challenges for regional Cities in Japan. Contribution to Interface section, Planning Theory and Practice, 7 (4), 470-475.
• Sorensen, A. (2003). Building World City Tokyo: Globalization and Conflict over Urban Space. Annals of Regional Science, 37(3), 519-531.
• Sorensen, A. (2003). Megalopolitan Development and the Transformation of Rural Japan: Sustainability Implications of Extended Metropolitan Regions in Asia, in Human Settlement Development section, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Sassen, S. (ed.). Paris: UNESCO, 17 pages.
• Sorensen, A. (2001). Building Suburbs in Japan: Continuous unplanned change on the urban fringe. Town Planning Review, 72(3), 247-273.
• Sorensen, A. (2001). Urban Planning and Civil Society in Japan: The Role of the Taisho Period Home Ministry in Japanese Urbanisation and Planning.  Planning Perspectives, 16(4), 383-406 .
• Sorensen, A. (2001). Subcentres and Satellite Cities: Tokyo’s 20th Century Experience of Planned Polycentrism. International Journal of Planning Studies, 6(1), 9-32.
• Sorensen, A. (2000). Land Readjustment and Metropolitan Growth: an Examination of Suburban Land Development and Urban Sprawl in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. Progress in Planning, 53(4), 1-113.  
• Sorensen, A. (2000). Conflict, Consensus, or Consent: Implications of Japanese Land Readjustment Practice for Developing Countries. Habitat International, 24(1), 51-73.
• Sorensen, A. (1999). Land Readjustment, Urban Planning and Urban Sprawl in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. Urban Studies, 36(13), 2333-2360

Book chapters

• Sorensen, A. (2018). ‘Institutions in Urban Space.’ in Institutions in Action. W. Salet. (ed.) London, Routledge.
• Sorensen, A. (2018). ‘Differentiated landscapes of suburban property: path dependence and the political logics of land ownership institutions.’ Suburban Land and Property. U. Lehrer and R. Harris. (eds.). Toronto, University of Toronto Press. 
• Sorensen, A. (2017). ‘New Institutionalism and Planning Theory.’ Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory. M. Gunder, A. Madanipour and V. Watson. (eds.). London, New York, Routledge.
• Sorensen, A. (2017). ‘Planning History and Theory: Institutions, comparison, and temporal processes.’ Routledge Handbook of Planning History. C. Hein. (ed.). London, New York, Routledge.
• Sorensen, A. (2017). ‘Global Suburbanization in Planning History,’ Routledge Handbook of Planning History. C. Hein. (ed.) London, New York, Routledge.
• Sorensen, A. (2017). ‘National Urban Systems in an Era of Transnationalism.’ Urbanization in a Global Context: A Canadian Readers Guide. A. Bain and L. Peake. (eds.). Oxford, London, New York, Oxford University Press.
• Sorensen, A. (2017). ‘Future Visions of Tokyo that Mattered: Utopian concepts and unanticipated outcomes.’ Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present. T. Bunnell and D. P. S. Goh. (eds.). Berlin, Jovis.
• Sorensen, A. (2016). Visions of the Good City in the Rapid Growth Period. Cartographic Japan. K. Wigen, F. Sugimoto and C. Karacas. (eds.). Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 207-209.
• Sorensen, A. (2016). Rebuilding Tokyo after the Great Kanto Earthquake. Cartographic Japan. K. Wigen, F. Sugimoto and C. Karacas. (eds.). Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 155-157.
• Sorensen, A. (2015) “Transforming land into property: institutions and institutional borrowing” in Connections: a Festschrift for Patsy Healey J. Hillier and J. Metzger, (eds.) London: Ashgate, pp.423-436
• Sorensen, A. and Watanabe Shun-Ichi (forthcoming) Den-En Chôfu, the first Japanese ‘Garden City’: Preservation of an iconic planned community in Tokyo? The Heritage of Iconic Planned Communities: The Challenges of Change I. Gournay, M. Sies, and R. Freestone, (eds.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Sorensen, A. (2012). Shrinking cities and liveability in Japan: emerging relationships and challenges, in Urban Spaces in Japan: Cultural and Social Perspectives, Brumman, C. & Schulz, E. (eds.). London: Routledge, 203-220.
• Sorensen, A. (2012). The State and Social Capital in Japan: (re)scripting the standard operating practices of neighborhood civic engagement, in The Dynamics of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Asia, Daniere, A. & Luong, H.V. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK, Routledge, 163-181.
• Sorensen, A. (2011). Post-Suburban Tokyo? Urbanization, Suburbanization, Reurbanization, in International Perspectives on Suburbanization: A Post-suburban World?, Phelps, N.A. & Wu, F. Houndsmills, Hampshire, UK. New York, New York, USA, Palgrave MacMillan, 210-224.
• Sorensen, A. (2011). Uneven Geographies of Vulnerability: Tokyo in the 21st Century, in Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Hamnett, S. & Forbes, D. (eds.). Planning London: Routledge, 40-66.
• Sorensen, A. (2011). Toronto Megacity: Growth, Planning Institutions, Sustainability, in Megacities: Urban Form and Sustainability, Sorensen, A. & Okata, J. (eds.). Tokyo: Springer Verlag, 245-271.
• Sorensen, A. (2011). Conclusions: Megacities, Urban form, Development, and Governance, in Megacities, Urban form and Sustainability. Sorensen, A. & Okata, J. (eds.). Tokyo: Springer Verlag, 397-418.
• Sorensen, A. & Okata, J. (2011). Introduction: Megacities, Urban Form and Sustainability, in Megacities, Urban form and Sustainability. Sorensen, A. & Okata, J. (eds.). Tokyo: Springer Verlag, 1 -12.
• Sorensen, A. (2010). Urban Sustainability and Compact Cities Ideas in Japan: The diffusion, transformation and deployment of planning concepts, in Crossing Borders: International Exchange and Planning Practices, Healey, P. & Upton, R. London and New York: Routledge, 117-140.
• Sorensen, A. (2008). Growth Management in Toronto’ chapter, in Growth Management in Comparative Perspective (in Japanese), Hideki, K. (ed.).
• Sorensen, A., Hideki, K. & Miyamoto, A. (2008). Machizukuri, Civil Society, and Community Space in Japan, in Community Space and the City in Asia, Daniere, A. & Douglass, M. (eds). London: Routledge.
• Sorensen A. (2007). Changing Governance of Shared Spaces: Machizukuri in historical institutional perspective, Chapter 3 in Living Cities in Japan: Citizens’ movements, community building, and local environments, Sorensen, A. & Funck, C. (eds).  London: Routledge, 56-90.
• Sorensen, A. & Funck, C. (2007). Living Cities in Japan: Introductio, Chapter 1 in Living Cities in Japan: Citizens’ movements, community building, and local environments, Sorensen, A. & Funck, C. (eds).  London: Routledge, 1-36
• Fujii, S., Okata, J., & Sorensen A. (2007). Inner-city Redevelopment in Tokyo: Conflicts over urban place, planning governance, and neighborhoods, Chapter 12 in Living Cities in Japan: Citizens’ movements, community building, and local environments, Sorensen, A. & Funck, C. (eds).  London: Routledge, 247-266
• Sorensen, A. & Funck, C. (2007). Conclusions, Chapter 13 in Living Cities in Japan: Citizens’ movements, community building, and local environments, Sorensen, A. & Funck, C. (eds).  London: Routledge, 269-279.
• Sorensen A. (2007). Consensus, Persuasion, and Opposition: Land Readjustment Organizing in Japan, in Analyzing Land Readjustment: Economics, Law, and Collective Action, Hong, Y.H. & Needham, B. (eds.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 89-114.
• Sorensen, A. (2006). Centralization, urban planning governance, and citizen participation in Japan, Chapter 5 in Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization, Hein, C. & Pelletier, P. (eds). London: Curzon/Routledge, 101-127.
• Sorensen, A. (2005). The Developmental State and the Extreme Narrowness of the Public Realm: The 20th Century Evolution of Japanese Planning Culture, in Comparative Planning Cultures, Sanyal, B. (ed.) London: Routledge, 223-258.
• Sorensen, A. (2004). Major Issues of Land Management for More Sustainable Urban Regions in Japan, Chapter 12 in Towards Sustainable Cities: East Asian, North American and European Perspectives, Sorensen, A. Marcotullio, P. & Grant, J. (eds.). London: Ashgate, 197-216.
• Sorensen A., P. Marcotullio, J. Grant (2004). Towards Sustainable Cities, Chapter 1 in Towards Sustainable Cities: East Asian, North American and European Perspectives, Sorensen, A., Marcotullio, P. & Grant, J. (eds.). London: Ashgate, 3-23.
• Grant J., Marcotullio, P.  & Sorensen, A. (2004). Towards Land Management Policies for more Sustainable Cities, Conclusions of Towards Sustainable Cities: East Asian, North American and European Perspectives, Sorensen, A., Marcotullio, P. & Grant, J. (eds.) London: Ashgate, 301-308.

• Best Paper Prize 2016 Association of European Schools of Planning for Sorensen, A. (2015). 'Taking Path Dependence Seriously:  An historical institutionalist research agenda in planning history.' Planning Perspectives 30(1): 17-38.
• 2004 International Planning History Society Book Prize, “Best English-language book in Planning History 2001-2003” for “The Making of Urban Japan”