The contributions from scholars, experts, and practitioners in various disciplines – from the social sciences and humanities to architecture and urban planning – that are brought together in this volume help to clarify the basic importance of maintaining and preserving the distinctive identity of two paradigmatic cases of cities on water.
Rosa Caroli is Professor of Japanese History at the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and a specialist in the modern and contemporary history of Japan. Her main field of research concerns the evolution of Japan’s modern state with a specific focus on identitarian discourses on the nation and its peripheries. She has also written extensively about the history of Okinawa and, more recently, about Edo-Tokyo history.