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The Life We Longed For: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan,Used
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The Life We Longed For examines highrise housing projects called danchi that were built during Japans years of high speed economic growth (19551972) to house aspiring middleclass families migrating to urban areas. Due to their modern designs and the welldocumented lifestyles of their inhabitants, the danchi quickly entered the social imagination as a life to long for and ultimately helped to redefine the parameters of middleclass aspirations after World War II.The book also discusses the extensive critique of danchi life, which warned that the emphasis on privacy and rampant consumerism was destructive of traditional family and community values. Ultimately, the danchi lifestyle served as a powerful middleclass dream which shaped the materiality and ideology of postwar everyday life, both for better and for worse.
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