| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 307 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University |
|
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
|
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
The author 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 |
| Notes |
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Urbanization -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
|
|
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
|
|
Civilization
|
|
Social conditions
|
|
Urbanization
|
| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Social conditions -- 1912-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069576
|
|
Japan -- Civilization -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069375
|
|
Japan -- History -- 1912-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069502
|
| Subject |
Japan
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9780520955387 |
|
0520955382 |
|
0520275209 |
|
9780520275201 |
|
