{"identifiers": {"librarything": ["9762256"], "goodreads": ["2758583"]}, "title": "The Japanese City", "publish_date": "January 1998", "publishers": ["University Press of Kentucky"], "weight": "1.2 pounds", "covers": [1539102], "physical_format": "Hardcover", "contributions": ["Pradyumna P. Karan (Editor)", "Kristin Stapleton (Editor)"], "subjects": ["Urban & municipal planning", "Urban Sociology", "Planning", "Urban Planning", "Social Science", "Sociology", "Sociology - Urban", "SOC", "SOC026030", "Asia - Japan", "Cities and towns", "Urban ecology", "City planning", "Japan", "Land use, Urban"], "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Despite the size of Japan's economy and the long history of urban life in that society, very little has been published recently in English (or, one might add, in the other European languages) on the Japanese city."}, "isbn_13": ["9780813120355"], "isbn_10": ["0813120357"], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "physical_dimensions": "9.1 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches", "source_records": ["amazon:0813120357"], "key": "/books/OL8022416M", "number_of_pages": 250, "works": [{"key": "/works/OL18342284W"}], "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-29T15:03:11.581851"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-01-12T13:05:54.412340"}}