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Learning from the Japanese city: looking East in urban design

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Planning, history and environment seriesPublication details: 2012 Routledge USAEdition: 2nd edDescription: 192 pISBN:
  • 9780415554404
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 711.40952 S4L3
Summary: Japanese cities are amongst the most intriguing and confounding anywhere. Their structures, patterns of building and broader visual characteristics defy conventional urban design theories, and the book explores why this is so. Like its cities, Japan?s written language is recognized as one of the most complicated, and the book is unique in revealing how the two are closely related. Set perceptively against a sweep of ideas drawn from history, geography, science, cultural and design theory, Learning from the Japanese City is a highly original exploration of contemporary urbanism that crosses disciplines, scales, time and space. (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415554404/)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Japanese cities are amongst the most intriguing and confounding anywhere. Their structures, patterns of building and broader visual characteristics defy conventional urban design theories, and the book explores why this is so. Like its cities, Japan?s written language is recognized as one of the most complicated, and the book is unique in revealing how the two are closely related. Set perceptively against a sweep of ideas drawn from history, geography, science, cultural and design theory, Learning from the Japanese City is a highly original exploration of contemporary urbanism that crosses disciplines, scales, time and space. (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415554404/)

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