The making of urban Japan : cities and planning from Edo to the twenty-first century / André Sorensen.

Main entry:

Sorensen, André, 1960-

Title & Author:

The making of urban Japan : cities and planning from Edo to the twenty-first century / André Sorensen.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Description:

xiii, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Series:

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-375) and index.
The legacy of the Tokugawa period -- The Meiji period : establishing modern traditions -- Taishō period urbanisation and the development of the 1919 planning system -- Japan's first urban planning system -- Post-war reconstruction and rapid economic growth -- Environmental crisis and the new city planning system of 1968 -- Implementing the new city planning system -- From planning deregulation to the bubble economy -- The era of local rights : master plans, machizukuri and historical preservation -- Japanese urbanisation and planning.

Summary:

"Japanese cities are astonishing phenomenas but we have had to wait a long time for a thorough, comprehensive and critical analysis of them written in English. Now we have 'The making of urban Japan'. By providing a cogent and readable account of Japanese urbanisation and planning, this book will become indispensable reading for anyone interested in the evolution of urban society in the modern world."--Prof. Martin Brennan.

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ISBN:

0415226511
9780415226516
0415354226
9780415354226

Subject:

City planning Japan History 20th century.
Urbanization Japan History 20th century.
Cities and towns Japan History 20th century.
Urbanisation Japon Histoire 20e siècle.
Villes Japon Histoire 20e siècle.
74.72 urban planning.
Cities and towns.
City planning.
Urbanization.
Stadsplanning.
Urbanisatie.
City planning Japan.
Urbanization Japan.
Cities and towns Japan
Japan.
20th Century
Cities And Towns
City Planning
History
Cities And Towns Japan History 20th Century
City Planning Japan History 20th Century
Urbanization Japan History 20th Century

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232160
Call No.: HT169.J3 S67 2002
Status: Available

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