Dr Paul Waley

CONTACT DETAILS
Room G30
School of Geography
University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT
UK

Email: p.t.waley@leeds.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0 in UK) 113 34 33338



Student hours: posted on door

PUBLICATIONS

Papers (since 2000)

  • Waley, P. (2009) Introducing Trieste: a cosmopolitan city? Social & Cultural Geography 10:3, pp. 243-256.
  • Waley, P. (2009) Distinctive patterns of industrial urbanisation in modern Tokyo, c. 1880–1930. Journal of Historical Geography 35:3, pp. 405–427.
  • Waley, P. (2007) Tokyo-as-world-city: reassessing the role of capital and the state in urban restructuring. Urban Studies 44:7, pp. 1465-1490.
  • Tan Hong-Jen and Waley, P (2006) 'Planning through procrastination: the preservation of Taipei's cultural heritage.' Town Planning Review 77: 5, pp. 531-555 [PDF]
  • Waley, P (2006) 'Re-scripting the city: Tokyo from ugly duckling to cool cat'. Japan Forum, 18: 3, pp. 361-381 [PDF]
  • Waley, P (2005) 'Ruining and restoring rivers: the state and civil society in Japan.' Pacific Affairs, 78: 2, pp. 195-215 Winner of the fourth annual William J. Holland Prize for the outstanding paper published in Pacific Affairs in 2005.[PDF]
  • Waley, P. (2005) 'Parks and landmarks: planning the Eastern Capital along western lines', Journal of Historical Geography 31:1, pp.1-16
  • Phelps, N. and Waley, P. (2004) 'Capital versus the districts: A tale of one multinational company's attempt to disembed itself' Economic Geography 80:2, pp, 191-215
  • Waley, P. (2002) 'Moving the margins of Tokyo' Urban Studies 39:9, pp. 1533-1550
  • Waley, P. (2000) 'Following the flow of Japan's river culture' Japan Forum, 12:2, pp. 199-217

Books

  • Waley, P. and Fiévé, N. (eds) (2003) 'Japanese Capitals in Historical Perspective: Place, Power and Memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo', London, Routledge Curzon
  • Waley, P. and Tinios, E. (1999) 'On the Margins of the City: Scenes of Recreation from the periphery of the Japanese Capital, 1760-1860' Leeds, University of Leeds Press
  • Waley, P. (1992) 'Fragments of a City: A Tokyo Anthology' Japan Times, Tokyo.
  • Waley, P. (1991) 'Tokyo, City of Stories' Weatherhill, New York
  • Waley, P. (1984) 'Tokyo Now and Then' Weatherhill, New York.

Book Chapters (since 1995)

  • Waley, P. and Purvis, M. (2004) 'Sustaining the flow: Japanese waterways and new paradigms of development'. In Purvis, M. and Grainger, A. (eds) Geographical Perspectives on Sustainable Development, Earthscan, London, pp. 207-229
  • Waley, P. and Fiévé, N. (2003) 'Kyoto and Edo-Tokyo: urban histories in parallels and tangents'. In Waley, P. and Fiévé, N. (eds) 'Japanese Capitals in Historial Perspective: Place, Power and Memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo', London, Routledge Curzon.
  • Waley, P. (2003) 'A ferry to the factory: crossing Tokyo's Great River into a new world'. In Waley, P. and Fiévé, N. (eds) 'Japanese Capitals in Historical Perspective: Place, Power and Memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo', London, Routledge Curzon
  • Waley, P. (2003) 'Power, memory, and place'. In Waley, P. and Fiévé, N. (eds) 'Japanese Capitals in Historical Perspective: Place, Power and Memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo', London, Routledge Curzon.
  • Waley, P. (2002) 'Journey into another world: Tokyo's ferries and the transformation of landscape.' In Blanchon, F. (ed.) 'Aller et Venir: Faits et Perspectives', Paris, Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne. Pp 147-73.
  • Waley, P. (2000) 'What's a river without fish? Symbol, space and eco-system in the waterways of Japan'. In Philo, C. and Wilbert, C. (eds) Animal Spaces, Beastly Places: New Geographies of Human-Animal Relations, Routledge, London, pp.161-182
  • Waley, P. (1999) 'Tokyo: Patterns of familiarity and partitions of difference'. In Marcuse, P. and van Kempen, R. (eds) Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? Oxford, Blackwell, pp 127-157

Other Publications

Book Reviews (since 1995)
  • Pinder, D. (2006) 'Visions of the City: Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth-century Urbanism', Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press. In Urban Studies 43:9.
  • Pelling, M. (2003) 'The Vulnerability of Cities: Natural Disasters and Social Resilience' London, Earthscan. In the Geographical Journal
  • Sorensen, A. (2002) 'The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the 21st Century', London, Routledge. In Environment and Planning C.
  • Lam Peng-er (1999) 'Green Politics in Japan', London, Routledge. In Japan Forum 14:1 (2002), pp. 160-161
  • Eades, J. (1999) 'Tokyo' (world Bibliographical Series, Vol. 214), Oxford, Clio Press.  In Japan Forum 12:2 (2000, pp. 259-261
  • McClain, J. and Wakita, O. (eds) (1999) 'Osaka: The Merchants' Capital of Early Modern Japan', Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press.  In Journal of Asian Studies 59:4 (2000), pp. 1024-1025
  • Cybriwsky, R. (1998) 'Historical Dictionary of Tokyo', Folkestone, Shelwing.  In Japan Forum 12:2 (2000), pp. 259-261
  • Gaubatz, P. (1996) 'Beyond the Great Wall: Urban Form and Transformation on the Chinese Frontiers', Stanford, Ca., Stanford University Press. In Journal of Historical Geography 24:1 (19)
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