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Article: Small parks, big designs: reconstructed Tokyo's new green spaces, 1923-1931
Title | Small parks, big designs: reconstructed Tokyo's new green spaces, 1923-1931 |
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Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.cambridge.org/uk/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?historylinks=ALPHA&mnemonic=UHY |
Citation | Urban History, 2020, v. 47 n. 1, p. 106-125 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This article explores the genesis of small parks in Tokyo following the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. It sheds new light on an example of innovative urban design and post-disaster reconstruction, and highlights the growing place that children occupied in the minds of bureaucrats and urban planners. The small parks were designed for children first and foremost. Originally conceived as a means to increase space for school children to play and exercise, all 52 parks were strategically located beside primary schools. As the state's goals of social management expanded, however, officials increasingly recognized the potential to use small parks as sites of rest and guided recreation, as well as emergency refuge. A history of Tokyo's small parks thus offers a window in to the growing understanding about the relationship between the built environment, health and society in inter-war Japan. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/274441 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 0.4 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.416 |
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dc.contributor.author | Borland, J | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-18T15:01:46Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-08-18T15:01:46Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Urban History, 2020, v. 47 n. 1, p. 106-125 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0963-9268 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/274441 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This article explores the genesis of small parks in Tokyo following the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. It sheds new light on an example of innovative urban design and post-disaster reconstruction, and highlights the growing place that children occupied in the minds of bureaucrats and urban planners. The small parks were designed for children first and foremost. Originally conceived as a means to increase space for school children to play and exercise, all 52 parks were strategically located beside primary schools. As the state's goals of social management expanded, however, officials increasingly recognized the potential to use small parks as sites of rest and guided recreation, as well as emergency refuge. A history of Tokyo's small parks thus offers a window in to the growing understanding about the relationship between the built environment, health and society in inter-war Japan. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.cambridge.org/uk/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?historylinks=ALPHA&mnemonic=UHY | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Urban History | - |
dc.rights | Urban History. Copyright © Cambridge University Press. | - |
dc.rights | This article has been published in a revised form in [Journal] [http://doi.org/XXX]. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © copyright holder. | - |
dc.title | Small parks, big designs: reconstructed Tokyo's new green spaces, 1923-1931 | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Borland, J: borland@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Borland, J=rp01486 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0963926819000567 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85067914196 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 301918 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 47 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 106 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 125 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000506568800006 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0963-9268 | - |