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Parkscapes : green spaces in modern Japan /

"Japan today protects one-seventh of its land surface in parks, which are visited by well over a billion people each year. Parkscapes analyzes the origins, development, and distinctive features of these public spaces. Green zones were created by the government beginning in the late nineteenth c...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Havens, Thomas R. H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2011]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • From private lands to public spaces: early city parks
  • National parks for wealth, health, and empire
  • Visions of a green Tokyo
  • Parks and prosperity, 1950s-1980s
  • Parks and new eco-regimes.