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Learning from the Japanese City
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Looking East in Urban Design (Planning, History and Environment Series)
By
Barrie Shelton
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Free shipping Australia wide Ships from UK supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 208 pages, 2nd Revised edition Edition | | Other Information: | 200 black & white illustrations | | Published In: | United Kingdom, 28 March 2012 |
To the first-time Western visitor the Japanese city often appears chaotic and baffling -- even intimidating. In this new edition, Barrie Shelton develops his earlier interpretation of why Japanese cities look the way they do, contrasting Japanese and Western ways of thinking about space. Placing less emphasis on the correlation, or 'meeting', between Japanese urban form and recent Western-generated urban design theory, he looks more on Japanese urban design models as worthy of 'translation'. New illustrations and updated text add much to this highly readable book, while a major case study of Nagoya -- a city in which the various components and characteristics highlighted in the book come together -- gives an entirely new dimension. |
About the AuthorUniversity of Melbourne, Australia Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Western Interest in the Japanese City 2. Areas and Lines: From Written to City Texts 3. Aspects of Form: Street and Related Scenes 4. Strands of Culture 5. Learning from the Japanese City 6. Superblock Synthesis: 'Glorious Gokiso'. Summary. Appendix 1. Japanese Historical Eras. Appendix 2. Glossary of Japanese Terms Reviews"...I find this new edition to be riveting. The speculations and discussions [Shelton] began in the first edition have evolved and been broadened - this is, in effect, a new book. In a staggering display of scholarship he illuminates complex Japanese concepts of religion, landscape, urban design, archtitecture, spatial-definition, map making, writing systems, graphics..." - Journal of Asian Urbanism "...Learning from the Japanese City still represents the clearest articulation of the substance of Japanese urban form. I would strongly recommend it to anyone studying or travelling to Japan. I took my first edition with me when I went, and the trip was immeasurably more informed and fulfilling as a result." - Built Environment
| Publisher: | Routledge | | ISBN: | 0415554403 |
| EAN: | 9780415554404 | | Dimensions: | 24.0 x 17.0 x 1.0 centimeters (0.19 kg) |
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