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Author |
: Jorge Almazan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2022-04-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1951541324 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781951541323 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Emergent Tokyo by : Jorge Almazan
This book examines the urban fabric of contemporary Tokyo as a valuable demonstration of permeable, inclusive, and adaptive urban patterns that required neither extensive master planning nor corporate urbanism to develop. These urban patterns are emergent: that is, they are the combined result of numerous modifications and appropriations of space by small agents interacting within a broader socio-economic ecosystem. Together, they create a degree of urban intensity and liveliness that is the envy of the world's cities. This book examines five of these patterns that appear conspicuously throughout Tokyo: yokocho alleyways, multi-tenant zakkyo buildings, undertrack infills, low-rise dense neighborhoods, and the river-like ankyo streets. Unlike many of the discussions on Tokyo that emphasise cultural uniqueness, this book aims at transcultural validity, with a focus on empirical analysis of the spatial and social conditions that allow these patterns to emerge. The authors of Emergent Tokyo acknowledge the distinct character of Tokyo without essentialising or fetishising it, offering visitors, architects, and urban policy practitioners an unparalleled understanding of Tokyo's urban landscape.
Author |
: Hideo Furukawa |
Publisher |
: Comma Press |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2015-06-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis The Book of Tokyo by : Hideo Furukawa
A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to embark on an unstoppable rampage through the city’s train network… A young woman is accompanied home one night by a reclusive student, and finds herself lured into a flat full of eerie Egyptian artefacts… A man suspects his young wife’s obsession with picnicking every weekend in the city’s parks hides a darker motive… At first, Tokyo appears in these stories as it does to many outsiders: a city of bewildering scale, awe-inspiring modernity, peculiar rules, unknowable secrets and, to some extent, danger. Characters observe their fellow citizens from afar, hesitant to stray from their daily routines to engage with them. But Tokyo being the city it is, random encounters inevitably take place – a naïve book collector, mistaken for a French speaker, is drawn into a world he never knew existed; a woman seeking psychiatric help finds herself in a taxi with an older man wanting to share his own peculiar revelations; a depressed divorcee accepts an unexpected lunch invitation to try Thai food for the very first time… The result in each story is a small but crucial change in perspective, a sampling of the unexpected yet simple pleasure of other people’s company. As one character puts it, ‘The world is full of delicious things, you know.’
Author |
: Theodore C. Bestor |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 752 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804717977 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804717974 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Neighborhood Tokyo by : Theodore C. Bestor
In the vastness of Tokyo these are tiny social units, and by the standards that most Americans would apply, they are perhaps far too small, geographically and demographically, to be considered "neighborhoods." Still, to residents of Tokyo and particularly to the residents of any given subsection of the city, they are socially significant and geographically distinguishable divisions of the urban landscape. In neighborhoods such as these, overlapping and intertwining associations and institutions provide an elaborate and enduring framework for local social life, within which residents are linked to one another not only through their participation in local organizations, but also through webs of informal social, economic, and political ties. This book is an ethnographic analysis of the social fabric and internal dynamics of one such neighborhood: Miyamoto-cho, a pseudonym for a residential and commercial district in Tokyo where the author carried out fieldwork from June 1979 to May 1981, and during several summers since. It is a study of the social construction and maintenance of a neighborhood in a society where such communities are said to be outmoded, even antithetical to the major trends of modernization and social change that have transformed Japan in the last hundred years. It is a study not of tradition as an aspect of historical continuity, but of traditionalism: the manipulation, invention, and recombination of cultural patterns, symbols, and motifs so as to legitimate contemporary social realities by imbuing them with a patina of venerable historicity. It is a study of often subtle and muted struggles between insiders and outsiders over those most ephemeral of the community's resources, its identity and sense of autonomy, enacted in the seemingly insubstantial idioms of cultural tradition.
Author |
: Ashley Evanson |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 14 |
Release |
: 2019-09-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781524792343 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1524792349 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tokyo by : Ashley Evanson
Hello, Tokyo! Touch the snow as it falls quietly on Mt. Fuji. This board book series pairs early learning concepts with colorful, stylish illustrations of the iconic art, architecture, food, and culture of cities around the world. Both children and adults are sure to love these hip and charming books! In Tokyo, you can use all your senses while discovering the city: smell cherry blossoms in beautiful gardens, taste sushi at the fish market, and feel peaceful inside a temple.
Author |
: Yu Miri |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2021-06-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780593187524 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0593187520 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner) by : Yu Miri
WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo. Kazu's life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Through Kazu's eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.
Author |
: Michael Ryan |
Publisher |
: Hardie Grant Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2019-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781743586426 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1743586426 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Only in Tokyo by : Michael Ryan
Join intrepid chefs Michael Ryan and Luke Burgess on the best sort of culinary adventure – one that could happen only in Tokyo. From daybreak to late night, discover the creative people and compelling stories behind the restaurants, bars and tea houses of the world’s most exciting food destination. This is a book as much for people travelling to the city as it is for those with an appreciation of its special magic.
Author |
: Florent Chavouet |
Publisher |
: Tuttle Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2012-10-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781462906406 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1462906400 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tokyo on Foot by : Florent Chavouet
This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist's warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir. Florent Chavouet, a young graphic artist, spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend interned at a company there. Each day he would set forth with a pouch full of color pencils and a sketchpad, and visit different neighborhoods. This stunning book records the city that he got to know during his adventures. It isn't the Tokyo of packaged tours and glossy guidebooks, but a grittier, vibrant place, full of ordinary people going about their daily lives and the scenes and activities that unfold on the streets of a bustling metropolis. Here you find businessmen and women, hipsters, students, grandmothers, shopkeepers, policemen, and other urban types and tribes in all manner of dress and hairstyles. A temple nestles among skyscrapers; the corner grocery anchors a diverse assortment of dwellings, cafes, and shops--often tangled in electric lines. The artist mixes styles and tags his pictures with wry comments and observations. Realistically rendered advertisements or posters of pop stars contrast with cartoon sketches of iconic objects or droll vignettes, like a housewife walking her pet pig, a Godzilla statue in a local park, and an urban fishing pond that charges 400 yen per half hour. This very personal guide to Tokyo is organized by neighborhood with hand-drawn maps that provide an overview of each neighborhood, but what really defines them is what caught the artist's eye and attracted his formidable drawing talent. Florent Chavouet begins his introduction by observing that, "Tokyo is said to be the most beautiful of ugly cities." With wit, a playful sense of humor, and the multicolor pencils of his kit, he sets aside the question of urban ugliness or beauty and captures the Japanese essence of a great city in this truly vital portrait.
Author |
: Ted W. Lawson |
Publisher |
: Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2003-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781574885545 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1574885545 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by : Ted W. Lawson
"A new edition for the sixtieth anniversary of the famous Doolittle Raid"--P. [4] of cover.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 53 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780547877457 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0547877455 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dodsworth in Tokyo by :
Dodsworth's duck companion is surprisingly well-behaved during a visit to Tokyo, although he does fall into the koi pond at the Imperial Palace and becomes the center of attention at a Sanja Festival.
Author |
: Yukiko Tajima |
Publisher |
: Uitgeverij Luster |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9460582206 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789460582202 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis 500 Hidden Secrets of Tokyo by : Yukiko Tajima
"An inspirational and practical guide to Tokyo's finest and most interesting places, buildings, restaurants, shops, museums, galleries, neighborhoods, gardens and cafes"--Amazon.com