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Author | : Jeffrey Diefendorf |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2003-10-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780333659625 |
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This is the first book in English to examine the reconstruction of Japan's bombed cities after World War II. Five case studies (of Tokyo, Hiroshima, Osaka, Okinawa, and Nagaoka) are framed by broader essays on the evolution of Japanese planning and architecture, Japan's urban policies in Manchuria and comparisons between Japanese and European reconstruction.
Author | : John W Dower |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 2000-07-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393320275 |
Download Embracing Defeat Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. It examines the economic resurgence as well as how the nation as a whole reacted to defeat and the end of a suicidal nationalism.
Author | : Pat Ohlenroth |
Publisher | : Lucent Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-12-14 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : 9781420500288 |
Download Up from the Ashes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explains cultural, political, and social developments in post-World War II Japan.
Author | : Nick Tiratsoo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Buildings |
ISBN | : |
Download Urban Reconstruction in Britain and Japan, 1945-1955 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : David W. Edgington |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0774859415 |
Download Reconstructing Kobe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Hanshin Earthquake was the largest disaster to affect postwar Japan and one of the most destructive postwar natural disasters to strike a developed country. Although the media focused on the disaster's immediate effects, the long-term reconstruction efforts have gone largely unexplored. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, David Edgington records the first ten years of reconstruction and recovery and asks whether planners successfully exploited opportunities to make a more sustainable and disaster-proof city. This book is an intricate investigation of one of the largest redevelopment projects in recent memory.
Author | : Joe R. McBride |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2021-01-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030649385 |
Download Reconstruction of Urban Forests Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book will address the destruction of urban forest in nine cities by bombing during World War II and the Bosnian War and their reconstruction in the post-war years. After reviewing the general objectives and results of aerial bombing, the book explores the effects of bombing and the reconstruction of urban forest in London, Coventry, Hamburg, Dresden, St. Petersburg, Stalingrad, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Sarajevo. Sarajevo stands out among these cities because the destruction of its urban forest was the result of citizens cutting down trees for firewood during the siege of the city. Most of the cities studied developed plans for reconstruction either during or after the war. These plans often addressed the planning and re-establishment of the urban forest that had been destroyed. Urban planners often planned for infrastructure improvements such as new boulevards and parks where trees would be planted. After the war many of these plans were abandoned or significantly modified. Cost, resistance by property owners, control of reconstruction by authorities outside of the cities, and the lack of planting stock were factors contributing to the failure of many of the plans. Exceptions occurred in Hiroshima and Coventry where the destroyed cities became symbols of national reconstruction and every effort was made to redesign the destroyed portions of these cities as memorials to those who lost their lives and to demonstrate the rebirth of the cities. In several of the cities studied individual citizens undertook on their own the replanting of street and park trees. Their ingenuity, hard work, and dedication to trees in their cities was remarkable. A common factor limiting efforts to replant street and park trees was the lack of nursery stock. During and immediately after the wars nearly all nurseries that had supplied trees for city planting had been converted to vegetable gardens to produce food for the urban populations. The slow return to the production of trees for urban planting was a common factor in the time required in many cities to restore their street and park trees. There are lessons to be learned by urban planner, urban forester, and landscape architects from this book that will be useful in the future destruction of urban forest either by natural or man-made causes.
Author | : Louise Young |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520275209 |
Download Beyond the Metropolis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Beyond the Metropolis, Louise Young 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. Young tells this story through the optic of the provincial city, examining four second-tier cities: Sapporo, Kanazawa, Niigata, and Okayama. As prefectural capitals, these cities constituted centers of their respective regions. All four grew at an enormous rate in the interwar decades, much as the metropolitan giants did. In spite of their commonalities, local conditions meant that policies of national development and the vagaries of the business cycle affected individual cities in diverse ways. As their differences reveal, there is no single master narrative of twentieth century modernization. By engaging urban culture beyond the metropolis, this study shows that Japanese modernity was not made in Tokyo and exported to the provinces, but rather co-constituted through the circulation and exchange of people and ideas throughout the country and beyond.
Author | : Peter J. Larkham |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1351893890 |
Download The Blitz and its Legacy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Triggered in part by contemporary experiences in the Balkans, the Middle East and elsewhere, there has been a rise in interest in the blitz and the subsequent reconstruction of cities, especially as many of the buildings and areas rebuilt after the Second World War are now facing demolition and reconstruction in their turn. Drawing together leading scholars and new researchers from across the fields of planning, history, architecture and geography, this volume presents an historical and cultural commentary on the immediate and longer-term impacts of wartime destruction. The book's contents in 14 chapters cover the spread of themes from experiencing the war to reconstruction and its experiences; and although many chapters draw upon the UK experience, there is deliberate inclusion of some material from mainland Europe and Japan to emphasise that the experiences, processes and products are not London-specific. A comparative book tracing destruction to reconstruction is a relative rarity, and yet of the utmost importance in possessing wider relevance to post-disaster reconstructions. The Blitz and Its Legacy is a fascinating volume which includes war experiences of destruction, architecture, urban design, the political process of planning and reconstruction, and also popular perceptions of rebuilding. Its findings provide very timely lessons which highlight the value of learning from historical precedent.
Author | : Kären Wigen |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2016-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022607305X |
Download Cartographic Japan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Introduction to Part II - Kären Wigen -- Mapping the City -- 13. Characteristics of Premodern Urban Space - Tamai Tetsuo -- 14. Evolving Cartography of an Ancient Capital - Uesugi Kazuhiro -- 15. Historical Landscapes of Osaka - Uesugi Kazuhiro -- 16. The Urban Landscape of Early Edo in an East Asian Context - Tamai Tetsuo -- 17. Spatial Visions of Status - Ronald P. Toby -- 18. The Social Landscape of Edo - Paul Waley -- 19. What Is a Street? - Mary Elizabeth Berry -- Sacred Sites and Cosmic Visions -- 20. Locating Japan in a Buddhist World - D. Max Moerman
Author | : J. Diefendorf |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137390174 |
Download Transnationalism and the German City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Too often, scholars treat transnationalism as a conflict in which the local, regional, and national give way to globalized identity. As these varied studies of German cities show, though, the urban environment is actually a site of trans-localism that is not merely oppositional, but that adapts itself dialectically to the forces of globalization.