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Tokyo a biography: disasters, destruction and renewal: the story of an indomitable city
In Tokyo; A Biography author Stephen Mansfield demonstrates how such events-and many more like them- becam opportunities to remake this centuries old city. In a whirlwind journey through Tokyo's past, Mansfield demonstrates how the city's response to everything from natusal disasters to regime change has been to reinvent itself. A malleable boy becomes a figurehead for relentless forces of modernization. Utter destruction wipes the slate clean so Tokyoites may start over again. And so it goes.Tokyo's story is fascinating and Mansfield's Tokyo rises higher with each renewal. By the book's end, we see a city that isutterly unique- a place that, despite its long history, is always preparing to turn the next corner... and the next.
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