The Japanese city / P.P. Karan and Kristin Stapleton, editors.

Other author Karan, Pradyumna P. (Pradyumna Prasad)
Other author Stapleton, Kristin, 1963-
Format Book
Publication InfoLexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1997.
Descriptionviii, 250 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction / P.P. Karan. -- The city in Japan / P.P. Karan. -- Urban landscapes of Japan / Cotton Mather. -- From Castle Town to Manhattan Town with suburbs: a geographical account of Tokyo's changing landmarks and symbolic landscapes / Roman Cybriwsky. -- Suburbanization of Tokyo and the daily lives of suburban people / Kohei Okamoto. -- Together and equal: place stratification in Osaka / Kuniko Fujita and Ricchard Child Hill. -- Urban land use and control in the Japanese City: a case study of Hiroshima, Osaka, and Kyoto / David Callies. -- Disasters chronic and acute: issues in the study of environmental pollution in urban Japan / Robert Kidder. -- Urban restructuring in Omuta, Japan, and Flint, Michigan : a comparison / Theodore J. Gilman. -- The image of Tokyo in Soseki's fiction / William Burton.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97027312
ISBN0813120357 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks HT147.J3 J39 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold