Rebuilding urban Japan after 1945
By: edited by Carola Hein, Jeffry M. Diefendorf, and Ishida Yorifusa
Contributors: Hein, Carola; Diefendorf, Jeffry M., 1945-; Ishida, Yorifusa, 1932-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: City planning -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Urban renewal -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Housing rehabilitation -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan; Japan -- History -- 1945-; Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945-; Japan -- Politics and government -- 1945-
Other titles: Rebuilding urban Japan after nineteen hundred forty five; Rebuilding urban Japan after nineteen hundred and forty five
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-263) and index
Table of contents: title: Rebuilding Japanese cities after 1945 / C. Hein; title: Japanese cities and planning in the reconstruction period, 1945-55 / I. Yorifusa; title: Reconstructing Tokyo: the attempt to transform a metropolis / I. Hiroo; title: The rebuilding of Osaka: a reflection of the structural weaknesses in Japanese planning / H. Junichi; title: Reconstructing Hiroshima and preserving the reconstructed city / I. Norioki; title: The reconstruction of Nagaoka and its influence on urban forms / M. Shoji; title: War damage reconstruction, city planning and U.S. civil administration in Okinawa / I. Takayuki; title: Learning from Dairen, learning from Shinkyo: Japanese colonial city planning and postwar reconstruction / D. Tucker; title: Aesthetics and reconstruction: Japanese architectural culture in the 1950s / C. Wendelken; title: War and reconstruction in Germany and Japan / J.M. Diefendorf; title: Change and continuity in postwar urban Japan / C. Hein