“Cultivating a Cultural Home Space: The Case of Little Tokyo’s Budokan of Los Angeles Project”
Volume 10:2, p. 23 (2012)
by Susan Nakaoka
ABSTRACT: Little Tokyo is a unique case exemplifying the evolving nature of community economic development in Los Angeles. In-depth interviews with key community leaders identify the need for the importance of a place-specific, contextually relevant development approach in order to maintain an ethnic presence in the neighborhood. Faced with new threats of gentrification, the complications of a global economy, and a new phase of transit-oriented development, community members are banking on a multi-sports complex in Little Tokyo to rejuvenate a sense of cultural home space for the now geographically dispersed Japanese Americans.
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Article Citation:
Susan Nakaoka (2012) Cultivating a Cultural Home Space: The Case of Little Tokyo’s Budokan of Los Angeles Project. AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community: 2012, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 23-36.