Tokyo: a spatial anthropology
Hidenobu, Jinnai
Tokyo: a spatial anthropology - Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. - ix, 236p.; hb; 24cm.
includes notes and index
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.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520071353/tokyo
9780520071353
Japan--Tokyo
City planning
City planning
Urban anthropology
Social conditions
307.12160952135 / HID
Tokyo: a spatial anthropology - Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. - ix, 236p.; hb; 24cm.
includes notes and index
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.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520071353/tokyo
9780520071353
Japan--Tokyo
City planning
City planning
Urban anthropology
Social conditions
307.12160952135 / HID
