Author : David Rands
Release : 2014-05-21
Genre : Social Science
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Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan write by David Rands. This book was released on 2014-05-21. Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan utilizes the theoretical model of complex adaptive systems and introduces the concept of function-based spatiality to investigate the roles of the urban environments of Tokyo and Osaka in the development of Korean communities in Japan. Analysis of distinct Korean communities allows for the examination of urban factors of each city which contributed to the patterns of Korean immigration and community formation. By utilizing a comparative narrative of the two cities, distinctions between the organic growth of Osaka and the planned city of Tokyo are illuminated. Additionally, the discussion utilizes the concept of function-based spatiality to show how each city interacted with its surrounding regional, national, and global spheres. The functions of Tokyo, as a gateway to Western modernization and center of the Japanese state, shaped the interactions with Korean immigrants. Likewise, Osaka’s functions as a center of mercantilism and second city played a large role in how Koreans were incorporated into the urban ethnoscapes. Taken together, these two examples provide insight to the dynamics of urban systems on the development of immigrant communities.