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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Visualizing the Birth of Modern Tokyo

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MITx Online

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See Tokyo’s modernization through the “100 views” tradition, from the gas-lit 1870s to the jazz era 1930s. Developed by MIT Visualizing Cultures, with images from the Smithsonian Institution.

Syllabus

  • understanding how Japan and its capital city evolved
  • the study of history and how it uses visual sources
  • the study of visual images, large databases and visual communication
  • the culture of change in the built environment.

Taught by

Ellen Sebring, Shigeru Miyagawa, John W. Dower, James T. Ulak, and Hiromu Nagahara

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