04866nam 2201021Ia 450 991082669500332120230126210219.00-520-95538-210.1525/9780520955387(CKB)2670000000339462(EBL)1132026(OCoLC)829460116(SSID)ssj0000832746(PQKBManifestationID)11414365(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000832746(PQKBWorkID)10935462(PQKB)10776481(StDuBDS)EDZ0000173326(MiAaPQ)EBC1132026(MdBmJHUP)muse30960(DE-B1597)521000(DE-B1597)9780520955387(Au-PeEL)EBL1132026(CaPaEBR)ebr10661922(CaONFJC)MIL451238(EXLCZ)99267000000033946220121031d2013 uy 0engurnn#---|||||txtccrBeyond the metropolis[electronic resource] second cities and modern life in interwar Japan /Louise YoungBerkeley University of California Pressc20131 online resource (326 p.)Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityDescription based upon print version of record.0-520-27520-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --INDEXIn 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.Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian InstituteUrbanizationJapanHistory20th centuryJapanSocial conditions1912-1945JapanCivilization20th centuryJapanHistory1912-19451930s.20th century.asia.asian history.culture.east asia.economic changes.history.ideological structures.individual cities.interwar period japan.japan social history.japan.japanese history.kanazawa.modernization.national development.niigata.okayama.political transformation.political transformations.prefectural capitals.regional interest.sapporo.social problems.social transformation.sociology.urban areas.urban culture.urban development.urban history.urbanism.UrbanizationHistory307.760952Young Louise1960-1014804MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826695003321Beyond the metropolis4074901UNINA