[audiobook] Microscope Image Processing by Qiang Wu; Fatima Merchant; Kenneth Castleman in Arts-Photography

Description

Bringing together a number of perspectives on the Japanese housing system; Housing and Social Transition in Japan provides a comprehensive; challenging and theoretically developed account of the dynamic role of the housing system during a period of unprecedented social and economic change in one of the most enigmatic social; political; and economic systems of the modern world.While Japan demonstrates many of the characteristics of some western housing and social systems; including mass homeownership and consumption-based lifestyles; extensive economic growth and rapid urban modernization has been achieved in balance with traditional social values and the maintenance of the family system. Helpfully divided into three sections; Housing and Social Transition in Japan:explores the dynamics of the development of the housing system in post-war Japandeals with social issues related to housing in terms of social aging; family relations; gender and inequalityaddresses the Japanese housing system and social change in relation to comparative and theoretical frameworks. As well as providing challenges and insights for the academic community at large; this book also provides a good introduction to the study of Japan and its housing; economic; social and welfare system generally.