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All too often, urban studies scholars have approached
transnationalism as a zero-sum game in which localities,
regionalities, and nationalities are suppressed in favor of a
globalized set of identities. At least in the German case, however,
globalization has if anything reinvigorated localism, with local
and regional identities exhibiting far more continuity than the
multiply disrupted national space. As this marvelously varied
collection demonstrates, the urban environment has become a site of
"translocal" re-territorialization in which actors do not entrench
themselves in opposition to globalization, but practice a
dialectical adaptation. Bringing together scholars from
anthropology, architecture, cultural studies, history, and urban
planning, this volume offers empirically and theoretically rich
essays to help deflate myths about the presumed dissolution of the
urban environment's multiple particularities. Together they
conceptually reconfigure the German city to reveal a transnational
set of processes intermingled within the local, regional, and
national spheres.
Too often, scholars treat transnationalism as a conflict in which
the local, regional, and national give way to globalized identity.
As these varied studies of German cities show, though, the urban
environment is actually a site of trans-localism that is not merely
oppositional, but that adapts itself dialectically to the forces of
globalization.
This is the first book in English to examine the reconstruction of Japan's bombed cities after World War II. Five case studies (of Tokyo, Hiroshima, Osaka, Okinawa, and Nagaoka) are framed by broader essays on the evolution of Japanese planning and architecture, Japan's urban policies in Manchuria and comparisons between Japanese and European reconstruction.
This is the first book in English to examine the reconstruction of
Japan's bombed cities after World War II, and it is a must-read not
only for Japan specialists but also for those interested in urban
history and planing anywhere. Five case studies (of Tokyo,
Hiroshima, Osaka, Okinawa and Nagaoka) are framed by broader essays
on the evolution of Japanese planning and architecture, Japan's
urban policies in Manchuria and comparisons between Japanese and
European reconstruction.
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