Серия "Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute"

In <i>Beyond the Metropolis</i>, Louise Young looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute «the city» took their characteristic modern shape. In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide ranging social, cultural, economic, and political transformations. The rise of social problems, the formation of a consumer marketplace, the proliferation of streetcars and streetcar...