TY - BOOK ID - 78139582 TI - The making of urban Japan PY - 2002 SN - 1134736576 1134736584 1280137940 9786610137947 0203993926 9780203993927 9780415226516 0415226511 9781134736584 9781134736539 1134736533 9781134736577 9780415354226 0415354226 0415226511 9781280137945 6610137943 PB - London New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - City planning KW - Urbanization KW - Cities and towns KW - Global cities KW - Municipalities KW - Towns KW - Urban areas KW - Urban systems KW - Human settlements KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Cities and towns, Movement to KW - Urban development KW - Social history KW - Sociology, Rural KW - Urban policy KW - Rural-urban migration KW - Civic planning KW - Land use, Urban KW - Model cities KW - Redevelopment, Urban KW - Slum clearance KW - Town planning KW - Urban design KW - Urban planning KW - Land use KW - Planning KW - Art, Municipal KW - Civic improvement KW - Regional planning KW - Urban renewal KW - History KW - Government policy KW - Management KW - 711.4 <520> KW - 911.375.5 <520> KW - -Cities and towns KW - -City planning KW - -Global cities KW - 711.4 <520> Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--Japan KW - Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--Japan KW - Stadsbeeld. Stedelijke vormen van vestiging. Grondvlak en opstand--Japan KW - -History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78139582 AB - During the twentieth century, Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into one of the world's largest industrial powers and most highly urbanised countries. Interestingly, while Japanese governments and planners borrowed carefully from the planning ideas and methods of many other countries, Japanese urban planning, urban governance and cities developed very differently from those of other developed countries. Japan's distinctive patterns of urbanisation are partly a product of the highly developed urban system, urban traditions and material culture of the pre-modern period, ER -