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



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Autore: Young Louise <1960-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Beyond the metropolis [[electronic resource] ] : second cities and modern life in interwar Japan / / Louise Young Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
Disciplina: 307.760952
Soggetto topico: Urbanization - Japan - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: Japan Social conditions 1912-1945
Japan Civilization 20th century
Japan History 1912-1945
Soggetto non controllato: 1930s
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
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Beyond the metropolis  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95538-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786228303321
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Serie: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute