1st Edition
The Making of Urban Japan Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century
By André Sorensen
Copyright 2002
404 Pages
by
Routledge
404 Pages
by
Routledge
400 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 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... Read more
1. The Legacy of the Tokugawa Period 2. The Meiji Period: Establishing Modern Traditions 3. Taishô Period Urbanization 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 Urbanization and Planning
Biography
André Sorensen
'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
