Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

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This answers it instead via fine-grained urban history and good, clear diagrams, performing a major service in the process.

By contrast, two people working minimum-wage jobs cannot afford the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in any of the 23 counties in the New York metropolitan area. After graduating from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, he obtained his PhD at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. I don’t want to advocate a neoliberal perspective, but in Tokyo, good things have been created through private initiative.Tokyo at its best offers a new vision for a human-scale urban ecosystem, where ordinary residents can shape their own environment in ways large and small, and communities take on a life of their own beyond government master planning and corporate profit-seeking. For instance, "the system [in yokochos] allows owners and managers to customise their spaces, invest in them as a long term project, and get involved in decision-making affecting the yokocho as a whole. This book examines five of these patterns that appear conspicuously throughout Tokyo: yokocho alleyways, multi-tenant zakkyo buildings, undertrack infills, low-rise dense neighbourhoods, and the river-like ankyo streets. Visitors to Japan, architects, and urban policy practitioners alike will come away with a fresh understanding of the world's premier megacity - and a practical guide for how to bring Tokyo-style intimacy, adaptability, and spontaneity to other cities around the world.

Two full-time workers earning Tokyo’s minimum wage can comfortably afford the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in six of the city’s 23 wards. For cities around the globe mired in crisis and seeking new models for the future, Tokyo's success at balancing between massive growth and local communal life poses a challenge: can we design other cities to emulate its best qualities?This book does its best to destroy so many of those clichés and stereotypes that the vast majority of foreigners make about the streets of Tokyo. Really great analysis, with a lot of ideas and suggestions that anybody can advocate for in their own cities. I recently read a very interesting book on urban planning (or lack of planning) in Tokyo, entitled Emergent Tokyo. The waterways are trying to provide something to us even as we have done our best to cover them up and forget about them. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.