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Tokyo Vernacular - Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects (Hardcover, New)
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Tokyo Vernacular - Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects (Hardcover, New)
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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 cityOCOs physical environment, since it required
both a shift in perceptions of value and a search for history in
the margins and interstices of a rapidly modernizing cityscape.
Scholarship to date has tended to view historicism in the
postindustrial context as either a genuine response to loss, or as
a cynical commodification of the past. The historical process of
TokyoOCOs historicization suggests other interpretations. Moving
from the politics of the public square to the invention of
neighborhood community, to oddities found and appropriated in the
streets, to the consecration of everyday scenes and artifacts as
heritage in museums, "Tokyo Vernacular" traces the rediscovery of
the pastOCosometimes in unlikely formsOCoin a city with few
traditional landmarks. Tokyo's rediscovered past was mobilized as
part of a new politics of the everyday after the failure of mass
politics in the 1960s. Rather than conceiving the city as national
center and claiming public space as national citizens, the
post-1960s generation came to value the local places and things
that embodied the vernacular language of the city, and to seek what
could be claimed as common property outside the spaces of corporate
capitalism and the state."
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