1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786228303321

Autore

Young Louise <1960->

Titolo

Beyond the metropolis [[electronic resource] ] : second cities and modern life in interwar Japan / / Louise Young

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013

ISBN

0-520-95538-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Collana

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Disciplina

307.760952

Soggetti

Urbanization - Japan - History - 20th century

Japan Social conditions 1912-1945

Japan Civilization 20th century

Japan History 1912-1945

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction. URBANISM AND JAPANESE MODERN -- ONE. World War One and the City Idea -- TWO. The Ideology of the Metropolis -- THREE. Colonizing the Country -- FOUR. The Past in the Present -- FIVE. The Cult of the New -- Epilogue. URBANISM AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY JAPAN -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In Beyond the Metropolis, Louise Young looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute "the city" took their characteristic modern shape. In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide ranging social, cultural, economic, and political transformations. The rise of social problems, the formation of a consumer marketplace, the proliferation of streetcars and streetcar suburbs, and the cascade of investments in urban development reinvented the city as both socio-spatial form and set of ideas. Young tells this story through the optic of the provincial city, examining four second-tier cities: Sapporo, Kanazawa, Niigata, and Okayama. As prefectural capitals, these cities constituted centers of their respective regions. All four grew at an enormous rate in the interwar decades, much as the metropolitan giants did. In spite of their commonalities,



local conditions meant that policies of national development and the vagaries of the business cycle affected individual cities in diverse ways. As their differences reveal, there is no single master narrative of twentieth century modernization. By engaging urban culture beyond the metropolis, this study shows that Japanese modernity was not made in Tokyo and exported to the provinces, but rather co-constituted through the circulation and exchange of people and ideas throughout the country and beyond.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910143558403321

Titolo

Numerical simulations and case studies using Visual C++.Net / / Shaharuddin Salleh ... [et al]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley, 2005

ISBN

9786610447879

9781280447877

1280447877

9780470361788

0470361786

9780471727255

0471727253

9780471727248

0471727245

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Salleh Shaharuddin <1956->

Disciplina

005.13/3

Soggetti

C++ (Computer program language)

Computer simulation

Microsoft .NET

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.

Nota di contenuto

NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS AND CASE STUDIES USING VISUAL C++.NET; CONTENTS; Preface; 1 Developing Applications Using Visual C++.Net;



1.1 Object-Oriented Approach to Visual C++.Net; Managed Extension Features; 1.2 MFC Fundamental Features; Graphics Device Interface; GDI Functions; Numerical Functions; 1.3 Writing Applications Using MFC; Creating a New Project; Creating a Window; 1.4 Writing the First Nonwizard Program; 1.5 Discussion; Windows Creation Process; 1.6 Summary and Conclusion; Bibliography; 2 Interfaces for Numerical Problems; 2.1 Visualizing a Numerical Problem; The Art of Visualization

2.2 Handling ArraysDynamic Memory Allocation; 2.3 Finding the Root of a Nonlinear Equation; Code2A: Bisection Iterative Method; 2.4 Solving a System of Linear Equations; Code2B: Manual Approach to the SLE Problem; Code2C: Resource File Approach for SLE; 2.5 Summary and Conclusion; Bibliography; Code Listings; Code2A: Bisection Method; Code2B: Solving a System of Linear Equations; Code2C: Resource File Approach to the SLE Problem; 3 Matrix Operations Using Wizard; 3.1 Document/View Architecture Using Wizard; 3.2 Matrix Algebra; Data Passing Between Functions; Matrix Multiplication

Finding the Inverse of a MatrixCode3A: Matrix Operations; 3.3 System of Linear Equations Problem Revisited; Code3B: Solving the SLE Problem Using Wizard; Code3B: Discussion; 3.4 Summary and Conclusion; Bibliography; Code Listings; Code3AView: Matrix Operations; Code3BView: System of Linear Equations; 4 Differential Equations Problems; 4.1 Differential Equations; 4.2 Ordinary Differential Equations; Fourth-order Runge-Kutta Method (RK4); Code4A: Small Window for Displaying Large Amounts of Data; 4.3 Partial Differential Equations; Poisson Equation: Finite Difference Method

Code4B: Solving the Poisson Equation4.4 Summary and Conclusion; Bibliography; Code Listings; Code4A: Runge-Kutta Method for ODE; Code4B: Poisson Equation Using the Finite Difference Method; 5 Drawing Curves; 5.1 Windows Graphics Representation; Windows Coordinates System; 5.2 MFC Functions for Displaying Graphics; Color Schemes; Selecting an Object; Filling a Rectangular Area with a Color; Plotting a Point; Drawing a Line; Drawing an Object; 5.3 Drawing a Curve; Code5A: Mathematical Curves; Drawing a Polynomial; Drawing a Lemniscate; Drawing Creative Net; 5.4 Cubic Spline Interpolation

Code5B: Constructing a Cubic Spline5.5 Summary and Conclusion; Bibliography; Code Listings; Code5A: Mathematical Curves; Code5B: Natural Cubic Spline; 6 Working with Images; 6.1 Handling Images; 6.2 Bitmap File Format; Raster Operations Involving Bit Shifting; Code6A: Demonstrating Bit Shifting; 6.3 Edge-Detection Problem; Sobel Filtering Method; Laplacian Filtering Method; Code6B: Detecting the Edges of an Image; 6.4 Summary and Conclusion; Bibliographical Note; Code Listings; Code6A: Working with Colors; Code6B: Edge Detection Problem; 7 Visualizing a Graph; 7.1 Elementary Graph Concepts

7.2 Graph Visualization Model

Sommario/riassunto

Master the numerical simulation process required to design, test and support mobile and parallel computing systems. An accompanying ftp site contains all the Visual C++ based programs discussed in the text to help readers create their own programs. With its focus on problems and solutions, this is an excellent text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, and a must-have reference for researchers and professionals in the field of simulations.More information about Visual C++ based programs can be found at: ftp: //ftp.wiley.com/public/sci_tech_med/numerical_simulations/