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...I find this new edition to be riveting. The speculations and discussions [Shelton] began in the first edition have evolved and been broadened - this is, in effect, a new book. In a staggering display of scholarship he illuminates complex Japanese concepts of religion, landscape, urban design, archtitecture, spatial-definition, map making, writing systems, graphics... - Journal of Asian Urbanism ...Learning from the Japanese City still represents the clearest articulation of the substance of Japanese urban form. I would strongly recommend it to anyone studying or travelling to Japan. I took my first edition with me when I went, and the trip was immeasurably more informed and fulfilling as a result. - Built Environment

"""...I find this new edition to be riveting. The speculations and discussions [Shelton] began in the first edition have evolved and been broadened - this is, in effect, a new book. In a staggering display of scholarship he illuminates complex Japanese concepts of religion, landscape, urban design, archtitecture, spatial-definition, map making, writing systems, graphics...."" -Journal of Asian Urbanism ""On behalf of all Japanese who are interested in cities and architecture, I must thank Barrie Shelton for his enormous contribution made on the study of Japanese cities. I am particularly impressed by his analysis of the Japanese street and sidewalk and...the morphological characteristics of the city, which none of us has hitherto explored so well."" – Fumihiko Maki ""...I find this new edition to be riveting. The speculations and discussions [Shelton] began in the first edition have evolved and been broadened - this is, in effect, a new book. In a staggering display of scholarship he illuminates complex Japanese concepts of religion, landscape, urban design, archtitecture, spatial-definition, map making, writing systems, graphics...."" - Journal of Asian Urbanism ""...Learning from the Japanese City still represents the clearest articulation of the substance of Japanese urban form. I would strongly recommend it to anyone studying or travelling to Japan. I took my first edition with me when I went, and the trip was immeasurably more informed and fulfilling as a result."" - Built Environment"

...I find this new edition to be riveting. The speculations and discussions [Shelton] began in the first edition have evolved and been broadened - this is, in effect, a new book. In a staggering display of scholarship he illuminates complex Japanese concepts of religion, landscape, urban design, archtitecture, spatial-definition, map making, writing systems, graphics... - Journal of Asian Urbanism

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