Japanese Cities

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments The perpetrators of any book project, and especially one of this complexity , pile up debts of gratitude. We wish to thank the following people: Kazuyoshi Koshiro at Yokohama National University, who first introduced us to some of the Japanese contributors to this book; Katherine McCracken, who helped us with the initial editing of several papers collected under these covers; Kim Bancroft, Tammy Dennany, Diane Crawfis, and Melissa Hefty, who typed and retyped various parts of the manuscript; John Logan for his astute comments on the original draft of the book; Temple University Press editor-in-chief Michael Ames, production editor Debby Stuart, and copy editor Terry Schutz, for their engagement and invaluable assistance with a very challenging manuscript ; and most of all, our contributors, who graciously granted us the patience and forebearing we needed to bring this undertaking to fruition. Xl ...