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Tokyo : a spatial anthropology / Jinnai Hidenobu ; translated by Kimiko Nishimura.
- Title
- Tokyo : a spatial anthropology / Jinnai Hidenobu ; translated by Kimiko Nishimura.
- Author
- Jinnai, Hidenobu, 1947-
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1995]
- ©1995
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | HT395.J33 T62513 1995 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Nishimura, Kimiko
- Description
- xii, 236 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- The internationally known Japanese architectural historian Jinnai Hidenobu set out on foot to rediscover the city of Tokyo. Armed with old maps, he wandered through back alleys and lanes, trying to experience the city's space as it had been lived by earlier residents. He found that, despite an almost completely new cityscape, present-day inhabitants divide Tokyo's space in much the same way that their ancestors did two hundred years before. Jinnai's holistic perspective is enhanced by his detailing of how natural, topographical features were incorporated into the layout of the city. A variety of visual documents (maps from the Tokugawa and Meiji periods, building floorplans, woodblock prints, photographs) supplement his observations. While an important work for architects and historians, this unusual book will also attract armchair travelers and anyone interested in the symbolic uses of space.
- Uniform Title
- Tōkyō no kūkan jinruigaku. English
- Alternative Title
- Tōkyō no kūkan jinruigaku.
- Spatial anthropology
- Subject
- Chūkintō-Bunka-Sentā
- City planning > Japan > Tokyo > History
- Open spaces > Japan > Tokyo > Planning > History
- Urban anthropology
- Anthropologie urbaine
- City planning
- Open spaces > Planning
- Social conditions
- Urban anthropology
- Stadtplanung
- Stadsplanning
- Antropologische aspecten
- Urban anthropology > Japan > Tokyo
- Urbanisme > Tōkyō (Japon) > Histoire
- Aménagement du territoire > Tōkyō (Japon)
- Espaces verts > Tōkyō (Japon) > Histoire
- Anthropologie urbaine > Tōkyō (Japon)
- Tokyo (Japan) > Social conditions
- Tōkyō (Japon) > Conditions sociales
- Japan > Tokyo
- Tokio
- Tokyo (Japan) > History
- Tokyo (Japan) > Description and travel
- Tokyo (Japan) > City planning > History
- Tōkyō (Japon) > Japon > Conditions sociales
- Tōkyō (Japon) > Conditions sociales
- Cities Structure planning History
- Tokyo (Japan)
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-224) and index.
- Language (note)
- Tranlation of: Tōkyō no kūkan jinruigaku.
- Contents
- The high city : surface and depths -- The cosmology of a city of water -- The rhetoric of the modern city -- Modernism and its urban forms.
- ISBN
- 0520071352
- 9780520071353
- LCCN
- 95006050
- OCLC
- 32087702
- SCSB-13821747
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library