Bøker i Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture-serien

This is the first work of modern scholarship to treat the whole of Kyotos premodern urban history, from the 8th century to about 1600. As an imperial city planned according to Chinese geomantic models and embedded with status specific architectural codes, the author takes the position that the cityscape itself can be read as a text rich in information on politics, religion, and daily life.

The first in-depth English-language work to present regional traditions of Chinese architecture based on a detailed study of the timber construction system. Lala Zuo presents case studies of twenty buildings along the Yangtze River built during the Yuan, often considered a transitional phase in Chinese architectural history.

Can an imperial city survive, let alone thrive, without an emperor? Alice Y. Tseng answers this intriguing question in Modern Kyoto, a comprehensive study of the architectural and urban projects carried out in the old capital following Emperor Meiji's move to Tokyo in 1868. Tseng contends that Kyoto remained critical to Japan's emperor-centred national agenda.