Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects

by Jordan Sand

Book Overview

Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid redevelopment left the city with little building stock of recognized historical value. Late twentieth-century Tokyo thus presents an illuminating case of the emergence of a new sense of history in the city's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520280377
• ISBN13: 9780520280373
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"