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The webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at https:\/\/myumi.ch\/P3Z9P.\r\n \r\n This lecture is based on Dr. Horikawa\u2019s 41 years of intensive fieldwork, chronicling a major movement that shaped preservation policy in Japan. It tries to provide a clear answer to the century-old question: why does place matter? Dr. Horikawa illustrates how the movement to preserve the Otaru Canal in Otaru, Japan, was neither conservative nor an obstacle, demonstrating that preservation can allow for and even promote change.\r\n \r\n Saburo Horikawa is a professor of urban & environmental sociology at Hosei University in Tokyo, and he received his Ph.D. from Keio University. He has won three major academic awards, including one from the discipline of city planning, for his book published by the University of Tokyo Press. 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