America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire is an excellent and unique analysis of the phenomenon of development of US Military facilities overseas. The eighth chapter of the book offers a detailed study of the differences in urban development in Okinawa, Japan between the residential areas of Kadena Air Base and the neighborhoods surrounding the base in Okinawa City. A fascinating comparison of the differences and similarities of values and priorities between the two communities is presented.
It would interesting if Mark L. Gillem, the author, would delve more deeply in not only the differences between US and Japanese attitudes towards residential development, but also between public and private-sector attitudes towards the needs and desires of those meant to live and work in such projects.
All in all, America Town is an enlightening book which I recommend. Thanks are due to the Penn State library for making it so easily accessible.
(comparative diagram from America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire, Mark L. Gillem, 2007)