TY - JOUR
AU - NATAKE, Natsuki
AB - Book Reviews 303 explicate middle-class discourses and his clear mastery of the relevant literature, a broader attempt to examine common consumer reactions might make his narrative even more complete. A second concluding point pertains to the remarkable breadth and detail of House and Home. Sand moves surely through a vast store of literature from disparate fields, from Kon Wajiro’s surveys to articles in women’s magazines, to promotional pamphlets for real estate. The density of informa- tion makes each chapter read almost like a condensed book of its own. Because of the clarity of the book’s central theme, the relevance of each discrete topic remains clear. At the same time, the sheer mass of information sometimes makes it difficult for the reader to connect topics to each other or to create a clear hierarchy of points. Ultimately, though, such cavils can hardly detract from the quality of the scholarship. House and Home is an ambitious, exhaustively researched treatise that will reward any scholar of life in modern Japan. For historians looking for models on how to write about architecture as a social phenomenon, it will prove eye opening and essential. References Fujimori Terunobu. 1993. Nihon no Kindai Kenchiku (The Modern 
TI - The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty-first Century, by André Sorensen. London: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series, 2002, 352 pp., US$129.95 (Hardcover ISBN 0-415226-51-1)
JO - Social Science Japan Journal
DO - 10.1093/ssjj/jyi028
DA - 2005-10-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-making-of-urban-japan-cities-and-planning-from-edo-to-the-twenty-wGRtuKyJBv
SP - 303
EP - 305
VL - 8
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -