Parkscapes: Green Spaces in Modern Japan 9780824860592

Japan today protects one-seventh of its land surface in parks, which are visited by well over a billion people each year

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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Parklands and Japan
1. From Private Lands to Public Spaces: Early City Parks
2. National Parks for Wealth, Health, and Empire
3. Visions of a Green Tokyo
4. Parks and Prosperity, 1950s–1980s
5. Parks and New Eco-Regimes
Afterword: Parks, the Public, and the Environment in Japan
Notes
Sources Cited
Index
About the Author

Parkscapes: Green Spaces in Modern Japan
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