A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
The entry of Western democracy into Asia represents one of the most significant dimensions of the East-West cultural dialectic. The transformative formal and intellectual influences of Western democratic concepts on Asian urbanity and identity formation therefore remain paramount to the discourse on Asian cities today. This document explores the search for democratic space in Japan—the first non-Western democracy in the world. By tracing the evolution and shifts of Japanese public space over the last six decades, it attempts both a re-reading of the Japanese city as a democratic construct, and of democracy itself as a culturally appropriated model.
The entry of Western democracy into Asia represents one of the most significant dimensions of the East-West cultural dialectic. The transformative formal and intellectual influences of Western democratic concepts on Asian urbanity and identity formation therefore remain paramount to the discourse on Asian cities today. This document explores the search for democratic space in Japan—the first non-Western democracy in the world. By tracing the evolution and shifts of Japanese public space over the last six decades, it attempts both a re-reading of the Japanese city as a democratic construct, and of democracy itself as a culturally appropriated model.
Manifesting Democracy
Bharne, Vinayak (author)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 63 ; 38-50
2010-03-01
13 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
Unknown
Manifesting Democracy: Public Space and the Search for Identity in Post-War Japan
| Online Contents | 2010
Manifesting Democracy: Public Space and the Search for Identity in Post-War Japan
| British Library Online Contents | 2010
Solid Shadows: Presencing Memory, Manifesting Memorial
| Wiley | 2024
FAT Projects: Manifesting Radical Post-Modernism
British Library Online Contents | 2011
FAT Projects: Manifesting Radical Post‐Modernism
| Wiley | 2011