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The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies)
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Product Description
This is the first book to comprehensively examine the phenomenon of Japanese city planning. Japan is one of the world's most urbanized countries, with its own traditions of urban management that are remarkably little known in the rest of the world.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3253890 in Books
- Published on: 2002-04-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 400 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
'The author observes that the 'historical and contemporary context of intensive rice production is critical to understanding the development opportunities, challenges and patterns that describe the Japanese city' - Gil Latz, Portland University Review
'Meticulously researched and impressively presented ... a tremendous resource for the serious scholar.' - Geographical Association
'This book should establish itself as the first port of call for both students and scholars embarking on a study of Japanese urbanism and planning history ... a highly sophisticated work' - Environment and Planning/Government & Policy
From the Back Cover
Japanese cities are astonishing phenomena 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 Andre Sorensen. By providing a cogent and readable account of Japanese urbanization and planning, Sorensen's book will become indispensable reading for anyone interested in the evolution of urban society in the modern world.
Professor Martin Brennan, Beppu University
During the twentieth century Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into one of the worlds 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. Japans distinctive patterns of urbanization are partly a product of the highly developed urban system, urban tr
