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Seoul

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Seoul

By Ross King

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Seoul is a colossus both in its physical presence and the demand it places on any intellectual effort to understand it. How did it come to be? How can a city this immense work? Underlying its spectacle and incongruities is a city that might be described as ill at ease with its own past. The bitter rifts of Japanese colonization persist, as does the troubled aftermath of the Korean War and its divisions; the economic "Miracle on the Han" that followed is crosscut by memories of the violent dictat...Show more

City and town planning: architectural aspects

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ISBN

9780824872052

Publisher

University of Hawai'i Press

Published year

2018

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Seoul

Format

Hardcover

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