A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Westerners have looked admiringly at traditional Japanese gardens and buildings and at contemporary examples of landscaping and architecture. Cities, on the other hand, have aroused essentially negative attitudes. In this article, Barrie Shelton, currently based in Nagasaki, suggests that their patterns and forms are deserving of more serious attention and may well offer important lessons for urban design elsewhere.
Westerners have looked admiringly at traditional Japanese gardens and buildings and at contemporary examples of landscaping and architecture. Cities, on the other hand, have aroused essentially negative attitudes. In this article, Barrie Shelton, currently based in Nagasaki, suggests that their patterns and forms are deserving of more serious attention and may well offer important lessons for urban design elsewhere.
Probing Japan's patchwork polis
Shelton, Barrie (author)
City ; 2 ; 95-103
1997-05-01
9 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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