Beyond the Metropolis Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan

Name: Beyond the Metropolis Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan
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ISBN: 9780520275201

ISBN-10: 0520275209

ISBN-13: 9780520275201

Edition: 2013

Authors: Louise Young

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InBeyond the Metropolis, Louise Young looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute "the city" took their characteristic modern shape. In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide ranging social, cultural, economic, and political transformations. The rise of social problems, the formation of a consumer marketplace, the proliferation of streetcars and streetcar suburbs, and the cascade of investments in urban development reinvented the city as both socio-spatial form and set of ideas. Young tells this story through the optic of the provincial city, examining four second-tier cities:…

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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/15/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 326
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.298



Acknowledgments



Contexts


Introduction: Urbanism and Japanese Modern



World War One and the City Idea



Geo-Power and Urban-Centrism



The Ideology of the Metropolis



Colonizing the Country



Modern Times and the City Idea



The Past in the Present



The Cult of the New


Epilogue: Urbanism and Twentieth-Century Japan


Notes


Bibliography


Index