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Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects
Jordan Sand
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Description for Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects
Paperback. Moving from the politics of the public square to the invention of neighborhood community, to oddities found and appropriated in the streets, to the consecration of everyday scenes and artifacts as heritage in museums, this title traces the rediscovery of the past - sometimes in unlikely forms - in a city with few traditional landmarks. Num Pages: 224 pages, baseline scatter. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid redevelopment left the city with little building stock of recognized historical value. Late twentieth-century Tokyo thus presents an illuminating case of the emergence of a new sense of history in the city's physical environment, since it required both a shift in perceptions of value and a search for history in the margins and interstices of a rapidly modernizing cityscape. Scholarship to date has tended to ... Read more
Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid redevelopment left the city with little building stock of recognized historical value. Late twentieth-century Tokyo thus presents an illuminating case of the emergence of a new sense of history in the city's physical environment, since it required both a shift in perceptions of value and a search for history in the margins and interstices of a rapidly modernizing cityscape. Scholarship to date has tended to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
222
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
318g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520280373
SKU
V9780520280373
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About Jordan Sand
Jordan Sand teaches Japanese history at Georgetown University and has written widely on urbanism and material culture in East Asia.
Reviews for Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects
"Written with grace and acuity, Tokyo Vernacular offers valuable reflections on the meanings of community, citizenship, rights, property, history, and materiality for urbanites faced with the rapid transformations of Japan's postindustrial consumer society."
David R. Ambaras American Historical Review "[The book] fills an important gap in the English-language literature about Japanese heritage and preservation ... a rich and ambitious ... Read more
David R. Ambaras American Historical Review "[The book] fills an important gap in the English-language literature about Japanese heritage and preservation ... a rich and ambitious ... Read more