Making of Urban Japan Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century

Name: Making of Urban Japan Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century
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ISBN: 9780415354226

ISBN-10: 0415354226

ISBN-13: 9780415354226

Edition: 2002

Authors: Andrï¿½ Sorensen

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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 urbanized 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 urbanization are partly a product of the highly developed urban system, urban traditions and material culture of the pre-modern period, which remained influential until well after the Pacific War. A second key influence has been the…

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List price: $78.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/28/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 404
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English




The Legacy of the Tokugawa Period



The Meiji Period: Establishing Modern traditions



Taishu Period Urbanization 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 Urbanization and Planning