Tokyo - A Spatial Anthropology

Informationen zum Autor Jinnai Hidenobu is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Hosei University in Tokyo. Klappentext "The sheer physical extent of Tokyo! its mile upon mile of high-density and mostly low-rise development! seemingly without topographic or maritime memory! makes it a difficult city for many Westerners to understand. We suspect that the same may be so for many Japanese. Jinnai Hidenobu shows us how today's Tokyo is rooted in its early development and how today's streets! waterways! land uses! and building types come from a past that remains visible to those who would care to look. One needs to walk or to row with Jinnai to see how yesterday makes today. His is a work of love that ties generations together in their physical environment."-Allan B. Jacobs! author of Great Streets Zusammenfassung This is an investigation into what remains of the old city of Tokyo. The author explored the streets on foot using old maps, and found that, despite an almost completely new cityscape, present day inhabitants divide Tokyo's space in much the same way that their ancestors did 200 years earlier. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword! by Richard Bender Preface Introduction 1. The High City: Surface and Depths 2. The Cosmology of a City of Water 3. The Rhetoric of the Modern City 4. Modernism and Its Urban Forms Afterword Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Jinnai Hidenobu, Hidenobu Jinnai
• Assisted by: Kimiko Nishimura (Translation), Nishimura Kimiko (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.1995
• EAN: 9780520071353
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07135-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Japan, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, City & town planning - architectural aspects, City and town planning: architectural aspects