Learning from the Japanese City: Looking East in Urban Design

by Barrie Shelton

Book Overview

Japanese cities are amongst the most intriguing and confounding anywhere. Their structures, patterns of building and broader visual characteristics defy conventional urban design theories, and the book explores why this is so. Like its cities, Japan's written language is recognized as one of the most complicated, and the book is unique in revealing how the two are closely related. Set perceptively against a sweep of ideas drawn from history, geography,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415554403
• ISBN13: 9780415554404
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.5"