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Beyond the metropolis : second cities and modern life in interwar Japan / Louise Young

Author
Young, Louise, 1960-
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
Copyright Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 307 pages) : illustrations
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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.
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ISBN
9780520955387 (electronic bk.)
0520955382 (electronic bk.)
0520275209 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520275201 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520275201
Note
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book."
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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