UID:
edocfu_9959241277302883
Format:
1 online resource (401 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-73657-6
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1-134-73658-4
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1-280-13794-0
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9786610137947
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0-203-99392-6
Series Statement:
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series
Content:
During the twentieth century, Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into one of the world's largest industrial powers and most highly urbanised countries. Interestingly, while Japanese governments and planners borrowed carefully from the planning ideas and methods of many other countries, Japanese urban planning, urban governance and cities developed very differently from those of other developed countries. Japan's distinctive patterns of urbanisation are partly a product of the highly developed urban system, urban traditions and material culture of the pre-modern period,
Note:
Cover title : The Making of urban Japan.
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 The legacy of the Tokugawa period; 2 The Meiji period: establishing modern traditions; 3 Taishô period urbanisation and the development of the 1919 planning system; 4 Japan's first urban planning system; 5 Post-war reconstruction and rapid economic growth; 6 Environmental crisis and the new city planning system of 1968; 7 Implementing the new city planning system; 8 From planning deregulation to the bubble economy; 9 The era of local rights: master plans, machizukuri and historical preservation; 10 Japanese urbanisation and planning; Bibliography
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-35422-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-22651-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203993927
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