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By André Sorensen

ISBN-10: 0415226511

ISBN-13: 9780415226516

Throughout the 20th century, Japan used to be remodeled from a terrible, essentially rural state into one of many world's greatest commercial powers and so much hugely urbanised international locations. curiously, whereas jap governments and planners borrowed rigorously from the making plans principles and techniques of many different international locations, eastern city making plans, city governance and towns constructed very otherwise from these of different built international locations. Japan's distinct styles of urbanisation are in part a fabricated from the hugely constructed city process, city traditions and fabric tradition of the pre-modern interval, which remained influential till good after the Pacific warfare. A moment key impression has been the dominance of crucial executive in city affairs, and its constant prioritisation of monetary progress over the general public welfare or city caliber of existence. André Sorensen examines Japan's city trajectory from the mid-nineteenth century to the current, paying specific consciousness to the vulnerable improvement of jap civil society, neighborhood governments, and land improvement and making plans laws.

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Temples and shrines fulfilled an essential role as urban open space, they were essentially private and religious spaces, and there was no tradition of public provision and maintenance of open park space in urban areas. While some temple grounds and daimyo estates were transformed into public parks in the Meiji period, as discussed in the next chapter, the idea of the urban park was slow to take hold in Japan and during periods of rapid urban growth in the twentieth century, little space was set aside for parks.

Another significant area was found in the east along the Sumida River and its canals. While the main early area of residences of top retainers and daimyo was to the immediate east and south of the castle 34 The legacy of the Tokugawa period in the area that is now Marunouchi and Kasumigaseki, by the eighteenth century when Edo was fully developed most daimyo had built a second and third residence further from the centre, and these estates were typically larger and greener than those near the castle.

Urban growth, particularly on the scale seen in the Tokugawa period which created a large urban class of merchants and artisans, inevitably posed a threat to the vision of a stable unchanging order based on the rural peasant tilling his paddies, ruled by a small, elite warrior class. After the initial period 18 The legacy of the Tokugawa period of rapid growth and town-building during the seventeenth century, much of the history of Tokugawa cities thus consists of more or less unsuccessful attempts at restricting urban growth by forbidding peasants to leave the land, while at the same time refusing to allow the commoner areas of existing cities to expand.

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