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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465149903321

Titolo

Constructing the colonized land : entwined perspectives of East Asia around WWII / / edited by Izumi Kuroishi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-317-16143-2

1-4094-2819-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Collana

Design and the Built Environment

Altri autori (Persone)

KuroishiIzumi <1953->

Disciplina

720.1/03095

Soggetti

Architecture, Japanese - China - History - 20th century

Architecture, Japanese - Korea - History - 20th century

Architecture - Political aspects - China - History - 20th century

Architecture - Political aspects - Korea - History - 20th century

Architecture and society - China - History - 20th century

Architecture and society - Korea - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Introduction; 1 A Study of Japanese Colonial Architecture in East Asia; 2 Recentering the City: Municipal Architecture in Shanghai, 1927-1937; 3 Scholarship and Political Identity: Asianism in Tadashi Sekino's Survey; 4 Transplanting State Shinto: The Reconfiguration of Existing Built and Natural Environments; 5 From Political Governance and Spatial Restructure to Urban Transformation; 6 Macau's Urban Transformation 1927-1949; 7 Colonial Modernity and Urban Space: Seoul and the 1930's Land Readjustment Project

8 On Park Kil-ryong's Discovering, Understanding, and Designing of Korean Architecture 9 Domesticating Others' Space: Surveys and Reforms of Housing in Chosen and Japan by Wajiro Kon; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Examining colonized cities in East Asia, this book brings together a range of different perspectives across both space and time. European,



Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese discourses are examined, with a range of complementary and conflicting views on the design of urban and architectural forms; the political, institutional, religious and economical contexts of urban planning; the role played by various media; and the influence of various geographical, social and anthropological research methods. The diversity and plurality of these perspectives in this book provides an entwined