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Paperback / softback. New. <em>The Life We Longed For</em> examines high-rise housing projects called danchi that were built during Japanâs years of âhigh speed economic growthâ (1955â1972) to house aspiring middle-class families migrating to urban areas. Due to their modern designs and the well-documented lifestyles of their inhabitants, the danchi quickly entered the social imagination as a âlife to long forâ and ultimately helped to redefine the parameters of middle-class aspirations after World War II.<br /><br />The book also discusses the extensive critique of danchi life, which warned that the emphasis on âprivacyâ and rampant consumerism was destructive of traditional family and community values. Ultimately, the danchi lifestyle served as a powerful âmiddle-class dreamâ which shaped the…
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The Life We Longed for: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan Paperback - 2017
by Laura Lynn Neitzel
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- Title The Life We Longed for: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan
- Author Laura Lynn Neitzel
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 186
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Merwinasia
- Date 2017-07
- ISBN 9781937385873 / 1937385876
- Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.09
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