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Beyond the metropolis : second cities and modern life in interwar Japan /
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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.