{"product_id":"tokyo-an-urban-portrait-9783868595758","title":"Tokyo: An Urban Portrait","description":"\u003cp\u003eTokyo’s seemingly endless sea of buildings has grown incrementally over \nthe past centuries, leading to an urban condition that is both coherent \nand contradictory at the same time. The understanding of Tokyo as a \ncontinuous and interdependent urban complex is a much-neglected \nperspective in previous readings of the city. \u003cbr\u003eAn attachment to the land,\n strong civic commitment, and a deep appreciation of the immaterial has \nproduced a nested megastructure of smaller communities. These places \nhave all evolved in a related way, briefly and temporarily disrupted by \nearthquakes and a devastating war. Over time, a set of distinct urban \npatterns emerged through centralization processes, the “manshon \nurbanization,” the relocation of various types of manufacturing, and \nother developments. \u003cbr\u003eWhat might appear homogeneous in composition and \nrhythm is in fact a configuration of distinctly different spaces, \ncreated by the routines of everyday life that make the district of \nShinjuku different from Shimokitazawa or Kitamoto. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book not only \nprovides the first comprehensive reading of the many urbanization \nprocesses shaping Tokyo today, but also seeks an entirely new approach \nfor looking at megacity regions: through their differences, and the way \nthose differences are are produced in the course of everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Naomi Hanakata","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278962635003,"sku":"9783868595758","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9783868595758.jpg?v=1772490623","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/tokyo-an-urban-portrait-9783868595758","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}