Название: Tokyo from Edo to Showa, 1867-1989 : the emergence of the world’s greatest city
Автор: Seidensticker, Edward.
Издательство: Tuttle Publishing
Год: 2010
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 758
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 18.1 Мб
Язык: английский
There can be few cities in the world that live, pulsate, and breathe through their geography as Tokyo does, few cities with a history that shifts through the creases of space as does that of Tokyo. This is particularly ironic in a city whose neighborhoods today hold few distinctive features and whose gentle topography has been all but obscured by batteries of building. But it was not always so, and what better way is there of writing Tokyo's history than by reflecting this shifting geography as neighborhoods prospered and declined while others, more aspirational, climbed up the socio–spacial ladder? This is precisely what Edward Seidensticker does in the pages of these books, brought together here together for the first time under one cover with numerous illustrations and an insert of beautifully colored Japanese woodblock prints of Tokyo from the era.