Tokyo : a spatial anthropology / Jinnai Hidenobu ; translated by Kimiko Nishimura.

Main entry:

Jinnai, Hidenobu, 1947- author.

Title & Author:

Tokyo : a spatial anthropology / Jinnai Hidenobu ; translated by Kimiko Nishimura.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1995]
©1995

Description:

xii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-224) and index.
The high city : surface and depths -- The cosmology of a city of water -- The rhetoric of the modern city -- Modernism and its urban forms.
Tranlation of: Tōkyō no kūkan jinruigaku.

Summary:

The internationally known Japanese architectural historian Jinnai Hidenobu set out on foot to rediscover the city of Tokyo. Armed with old maps, he wandered through back alleys and lanes, trying to experience the city's space as it had been lived by earlier residents. He found that, despite an almost completely new cityscape, present-day inhabitants divide Tokyo's space in much the same way that their ancestors did two hundred years before. Jinnai's holistic perspective is enhanced by his detailing of how natural, topographical features were incorporated into the layout of the city. A variety of visual documents (maps from the Tokugawa and Meiji periods, building floorplans, woodblock prints, photographs) supplement his observations. While an important work for architects and historians, this unusual book will also attract armchair travelers and anyone interested in the symbolic uses of space.

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Table of contents

ISBN:

0520071352 (alkaline paper)
9780520071353 (alkaline paper)

Subject:

Chūkintō-Bunka-Sentā
City planning Japan Tokyo History.
Open spaces Japan Tokyo Planning History.
Urban anthropology.
Anthropologie urbaine.
Espaces verts Japon Tōkyō Planification Histoire.
Espaces verts.
open spaces.
City planning
Open spaces Planning
Social conditions
Stadtplanung
Stadsplanning.
Antropologische aspecten.
Urban anthropology Japan Tokyo.
Urbanisme Tōkyō (Japon) Histoire.
Aménagement du territoire Tōkyō (Japon)
Espaces verts Tōkyō (Japon) Histoire.
Anthropologie urbaine Tōkyō (Japon)
Tokyo (Japan) Social conditions.
Tōkyō (Japon) Conditions sociales.
Japan Tokyo
Tokio
Tokyo (Japan) History.
Tokyo (Japan) Description and travel.
Tokyo (Japan) City planning History.
Tōkyō (Japon) Japon Conditions sociales.
Cities Structure planning History
Tokyo (Japan)

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Nishimura, Kimiko. translator.

Spatial anthropology

Holdings:

Location: Library main 92950
Call No.: ID HT395.J33 T62513; ID:95-B873
Status: External loan

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