Tokyo: A Spatial AnthropologyTokyo: destroyed by the earthquake of 1923 and again by the firebombing of World War II. Does anything remain of the old city? 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. (A translation of Tokyo no kűkan jinruigaku.) |
Contents
The Cosmology of a City of Water | 66 |
The Rhetoric of the Modern City | 119 |
Modernism and Its Urban Forms | 171 |
AFTERWORD | 217 |
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1923 earthquake architecture Azabu backstreets Banchō beauty became Bridge bridgeside buildings built canals castle castle-town city of Edo city planning city's cityscape civilization and enlightenment commoner districts construction context created culture daimyō establishments daimyō residences Dōjunkai Dōri early Meiji earthquake Edo Castle Edo meisho zue Edo period Edobashi environment European cities example Fukagawa garden gate Ginza group residences hatamoto high city hills Hongō Japan Japanese cities land living located low city mansions Meiji era Meiji period Meireki Fire meisho zue ment modern city modern Tokyo Mount Fuji Musashino Nakasendō neighborhood Nihonbashi Nihonbashi River parks places plaza present-day public squares residential ridge roads row houses shogunal streets Sumida River surrounded symbolic teahouses temples and shrines theater district tion Tokugawa Tōkyō Tokyo Bay topography Toshi traditional Tsukudajima uplands urban design urban space urban structure valley vista warehouses warrior waterfront waterside Western Western-style Zōjōji
References to this book
Contemporary Nomadisms: Relations Between Local Communities, Nation-states ... Matilde Callari Galli No preview available - 2007 |