Waley, P (2009) Distinctive patterns of industrial urbanisation in modern Tokyo, c. 1880–1930. Journal of Historical Geography, 35 (3). 405 - 427. ISSN 0305-7488
Abstract
Abstract: Industrial growth in Japan’s largest cities has followed patterns that are distinctive, and are significantly different from those that have been adduced in the recent literature on North America. This paper focuses on Tokyo, and in particular its north-eastern part, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that a process of ‘industrial urbanisation’ occurred in Japan’s capital city, a process that was shaped by the existence of a large proto-industrial base and sophisticated consumer economy and characterised by dynamic but disorderly growth in factories largely supplying consumer goods to the urban market. The paper reviews the disparate, not to say confused, nature of industrial growth in Tokyo, noting the variety in factory size and products as well as production methods. Central to the argument of this paper is that industrialisation preceded attempts at urban planning and that the processes of industrialisation and urbanisation occurred concurrently, laying the base thereby for the large mixed-function districts that became a common feature of Japanese cities.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in the Journal of Historical Geography. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in the Journal of Historical Geography, 35 (3) 2009 10.1016/j.jhg.2009.04.004 |
Keywords: | Continuity; Crafts-based production; Industrialisation; Tokyo; Urbanisation; Waterways |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 Jan 2014 10:35 |
Last Modified: | 08 Jan 2014 10:35 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2009.04.004 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.jhg.2009.04.004 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:77206 |