Dissecting the Danchi

Inside Japan's Largest Postwar Housing Experiment
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-981-16-8459-3
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 201 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knoroz, Tatiana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. The Birth of the Concrete Box.- Chapter 2. The Refugees of the Lost Decades.- Chapter 3. Re-positioning Ethnography in Architecture.

Über Autor(innen)

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.