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OverviewJapan had one of the most highly urbanised societies in the early modern world, and for parts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it is thought to have possessed, in Edo, the world's biggest city. Osaka and Kyoto, although only half of Edo's size, had populations of about half a million each. Japan's ability to develop its own brand of modernity has often been attributed in part to the size and sophistication of its cities, which have scarcely stopped growing, even today. Tokyo, the successor city to Edo, has become the centre of the largest conurbation in the world. Concentrating on Kyoto and Edo-Tokyo, the contributors to this volume weave together the links between past and future, memory and vision, symbol and structure, between marginality and power, and between Japan's two great capital cities. Architects and geographers, planners and cultural historians, they bring to their depiction of Japanese urban history a variety of different insights. The chapters cover a wide span of Japanese history but focus on the last four centuries. They trace the growth of Kyoto's official prostitution district in the 17th century, compare different illustrative and cartographic representations of the Tokaido highway between Edo and Kyoto, and they examine ideas and dissect plans for urban development in the last century or so. This is one of only a small number of books in English on Japanese urban history. As such, it will be of interest not only to students of Japan but also to East Asianists and urban historians more generally. Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey, Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo Willam H. Coaldrake, University of Melbourne, Australia Nicolas Fieve, C.N.R.S., Institut des Haute Etudes Japonaises, France Carol Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nicolas Fieve , Paul WaleyPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.960kg ISBN: 9780700714094ISBN 10: 070071409 Pages: 432 Publication Date: 03 October 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe editors earn a final tip of the hat for assembling a set of essays that crosses the Great Divide of 1868.. <br>- Journal of Japanese Studies, James L. McClain <br> Author InformationNicolas Fieve, Paul Waley Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |