The Urban-Culture Research Center (UCRC) at Osaka City University (OCU) is proud to present the ninth issue of UrbanScope, an online, open-access journal. As the name suggests, UrbanScope covers a broad spectrum of urban issues featuring contributions encompassing various perspectives within the humanities.
Translation
Yone Noguchi’s Introduction of Noh and Kyogen to the West and East
Madoka HORI
Special Topic: ‘Collective Inhabited Areas in Environmental history / Environmental writings’
Introduction
The Power of the Water System: Towards a Global History of the Water Closet
Frank UEKÖTTER
Environmental History and Spatiality
Ayuka KASUGA
Monks and the Desert in Western Thebes from the Sixth to the Eighth Century
Akio KAIBARA
Forest Settlement by Bruno Taut in Past and Present
Masafumi KITAMURA
Dreaming of “Human-Uninhabited” Areas? National Park Debates in Modern Germany and Japan
Kazuki OKAUCHI
Editorial Note