Dissecting the Danchi: Inside Japan s Largest Postwar Housing Experiment

Knoroz, Tatiana (Author)

ISBN 10: 9811684596 / ISBN 13: 9789811684593

Edité par Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

201 pages. 8.75x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. N° de réf. du vendeur __9811684596

Synopsis :

The book is the first to explore the history and political significance of the Japanese public housing program. In the 1960s, as Japan's postwar economy boomed, architects and urban planners inspired equally by Western modernism and Soviet ideas of housing as a basic right created new cityscapes to house populations turned into refugees by the war. Over time, as Japan's society aged and the economy began to stagnate, these structures have become a burden on society. In this closely researched monograph on the conditions of Japanese housing, Tatiana Knoroz sheds unexpected light on the rise and fall of the idea of social democracy in Japan which will be of interest to historians, architects, and scholars of Asian economic modernization.

À propos de l'auteur:

Tatiana Knoroz is a scholar with a special interest in Japanese housing, anthropology of lived space and built environment. She spent several years in Tokyo and Kyoto researching the history of Japanese architecture and social housing and collecting fieldwork materials for her danchi project.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Dissecting the Danchi: Inside Japan s ...
Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition : 2022
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Brand New