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The making of urban Japan : cities and planning from Edo to the twenty-first century /
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 o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2002.
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| Colección: | Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 those of other developed countries. Japan's distinctive patterns of urbanisation are partly a product of the highly developed urban system, urban traditions and material culture of the pre-modern period, |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 386 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-375) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203993926 9780203993927 9780415226516 0415226511 9781134736584 1134736584 9781134736539 1134736533 9781134736577 1134736576 9780415354226 0415354226 1280137940 9781280137945 9786610137947 6610137943 |