Emergent Tokyo

"A clearly articulated manifesto for those trying to preserve Tokyo`s emergent properties, Emergent Tokyo helps distil lessons for other cities"

—Benjamin Bansal, Urban Studies Journal

This book examines the urban fabric of contemporary Tokyo as a valuable demonstration of permeable, inclusive, and adaptive urban patterns that required neither extensive master planning nor corporate urbanism to develop. These urban patterns are emergent: that is, they are the combined result of numerous modifications and appropriations of space by small agents interacting within a broader socio-economic ecosystem. Together, they create a degree of urban intensity and liveliness that is the envy of the world's cities.

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. Unlike many of the discussions on Tokyo tha

• Autor: Jorge Almazán
• Wydawnictwo Acc Art Books
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Rok wydania: 2022
• Ilość stron: 224
• Stan: nowy, pełnowartościowy produkt
• Model: 9781951541323
• ISBN: 9781951541323
• EAN: 9781951541323
• Wymiary: 21 x 15 x 1.4 cm