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Sanctuaries of the City : Lessons from Tokyo.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (220 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317059561
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 307.76
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prelude: Positioning -- 1 Sanctuaries of the City, Lessons from Tokyo -- PART I: URBAN SANCTUARY-RESEARCH -- 2 Sanctuaries for Coming to Terms with Modernity -- 3 Urban Sanctuary-Research -- 4 Sanctuaries of Urban Virtues, a View from Architecture -- PART II: A PLACE-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- 5 Reconsidering Classical Sociology: In Search of an In Between Realm of Urban Society -- 6 Approaching the Orient -- 7 The Jolly Good Market Place -- 8 Sanctuaries for Performing Arts -- 9 The Sacred Sanctuary -- PART III: LESSONS FROM TOKYO -- 10 Lessons from Tokyo -- Postlude -- References -- Index.
Summary: This book proposes that we can learn from Tokyo about the instrinsic importance of in-between realms to an international culture: the sanctuaries. It argues that certain urban societies are more robust than others because they offer socio-spatial capacities that enable the development of skills for coping with modern forms of living. It studies places that may open the way to an international culture, namely market places, venues for performing arts and religious sites, , which - with particular reference to the Durkheimian tradition - are considered here in their quality as sanctuaries.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prelude: Positioning -- 1 Sanctuaries of the City, Lessons from Tokyo -- PART I: URBAN SANCTUARY-RESEARCH -- 2 Sanctuaries for Coming to Terms with Modernity -- 3 Urban Sanctuary-Research -- 4 Sanctuaries of Urban Virtues, a View from Architecture -- PART II: A PLACE-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- 5 Reconsidering Classical Sociology: In Search of an In Between Realm of Urban Society -- 6 Approaching the Orient -- 7 The Jolly Good Market Place -- 8 Sanctuaries for Performing Arts -- 9 The Sacred Sanctuary -- PART III: LESSONS FROM TOKYO -- 10 Lessons from Tokyo -- Postlude -- References -- Index.

This book proposes that we can learn from Tokyo about the instrinsic importance of in-between realms to an international culture: the sanctuaries. It argues that certain urban societies are more robust than others because they offer socio-spatial capacities that enable the development of skills for coping with modern forms of living. It studies places that may open the way to an international culture, namely market places, venues for performing arts and religious sites, , which - with particular reference to the Durkheimian tradition - are considered here in their quality as sanctuaries.

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