San Francisco’s Japantown is thriving post-pandemic. COVID-19 scrambled most cities’ economies and the way residents and visitors spend money. But sales tax data show some neighborhoods, including Japantown, have made quite a comeback.
How Japan Reduced Deaths From a Major Quake
After deadly tremors a decade ago, Kumamoto built earthquake-resistant buildings and even trained locals in search and rescue.
How Japan Reduced Deaths From a Major Quake
After deadly tremors a decade ago, Kumamoto built earthquake-resistant buildings and even trained locals in search and rescue.
Disaster Preparedness Tokyo - Apps on Google Play
The official application of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Welcome to Muni Town
By now our community holds space for dozens of builders working on community tools in service of the Open Social Web. We call this expansive community space 'Muni Town'.
Samurai city - Works in Progress Magazine
For three hundred years, Japan enjoyed enviable stability and peace. All it took was locking up its warlike samurai elite in the world’s least efficient city.
An Abundance of Influence
A group of YIMBY Big Tech donors took over San Francisco politics. Now they’re setting their sights on the rest of the country.
Disaster Preparedness TokyoApp App - App Store
Download Disaster Preparedness TokyoApp by Tokyo Metropolitan Government on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like…
Disaster Preparedness TokyoApp App - App Store
Download Disaster Preparedness TokyoApp by Tokyo Metropolitan Government on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like…
5 Vietnamese workers help rescue elderly woman after powerful quake in Kumamoto Pref.
YATSUSHIRO, Kumamoto -- Five young Vietnamese nationals helped rescue an elderly woman from a collapsed house in this southwest Japan city after the a
Urban America Reconsidered by David L. Imbroscio | Paperback | Cornell University Press
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina laid bare the tragedy of American cities. What the storm revealed about the social conditions in New Orleans shocked many Americans. Even more shocking is how widespread these conditions are throughout much of urban...
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Disaster Prevention Guide Book
A City for Children — Oakland Public Library
A City for Children — Gutman, Marta, — American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from West Coast cities, especially in California, where the migration boom at the end of the nineteenth century permanently changed the urban fabric of these newly diverse, plural metropolises. In A City for Children Marta Gutman focuses on the use and reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place for children. She introduces us to the women who were determined to mitigate the burdens placed on working-class families by an indifferent industrial capitalist economy. Often without the financial means to build from scratch, women did not tend to conceive of urban land as a blank slate to be wiped clean for development. Gutman shows how, over and over, women instead turned private houses and even a saloon in Oakland into orphanages, kindergartens, settlement houses, and day care centers, and in the process built the charitable landscape--a network of places that was critical for the betterment of children, families, and public life. The industrial landscape of Oakland, riddled with the effects of social inequality and racial prejudice, is not a neutral backdrop in Gutman's story but an active player. Spanning one hundred years of history, A City for Children provides a compelling model for building urban institutions, and it demonstrates that children, women, charity, and reform, along with incremental construction, renovations, alterations, additions, and repurposed structures, are central to the understanding of modern cities.
Yokohama, California by Toshio Mori | East Bay Booksellers
Yokohama, California, originally published in 1949, is thefirst published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Setin the fictional community of Yokohama, California, Toshio Mori'swork is alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of JapaneseAmerica in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Hometown Chinatown: A History of Oakland's Chinese Community, 1852-1995
Focusing on the local history of the Chinese in Oakland, California, this study examines common stereotypes in the early Chinese community and Chinatown organizations.
