Emergent Tokyo

Designing the Spontaneous City

Jorge Almazán, Studiolab

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English

Oro Editions
01 August 2022

Architecture; City & town planning - architectural aspects; Urban communities

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 neighborhoods, and the river-like ankyo streets. Unlike many of the discussions on Tokyo that emphasise cultural uniqueness, this book aims at transcultural validity, with a focus on empirical analysis of the spatial and social conditions that allow these patterns to emerge. The authors of Emergent Tokyo acknowledge the distinct character of Tokyo without essentialising or fetishising it, offering visitors, architects, and urban policy practitioners an unparalleled understanding of Tokyo's urban landscape.

By: Jorge Almazán, Studiolab
Imprint: Oro Editions
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 140mm,
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781951541323
ISBN 10: 1951541324
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 August 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jorge Almazan is a Spanish architect based in Tokyo and an associate professor at Keio University. His office, Jorge Almazan Architects, is committed to environmentally responsible and socially inclusive projects spanning from interiors and architecture to urban and community design. Studiolab is a research and design unit led by Jorge Almazan at Keio University. Engaging students, researchers and external collaborators, Studiolab combines rigorous academic research in the form of thesis and journal papers with real urban interventions and architectural projects.

Reviews for Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

"""Here the authors bring us to a new way of understanding Tokyo, reading the metropolis much as we would a European city: a product of historical conditions, which can be highlighted, analyzed and replicated. And so, with the five patterns as guides, ""Emergent Tokyo"" is a detailed plan to reproduce and mimic the conditions for organic growth: the conditions for an emergent city."" --The Japan Times ""...""Emergent Tokyo"" is a must-read for city lovers who want to learn more about Tokyo. "" --Discourse ""For Almazan, the lesson of these ""emergent"" Tokyo spaces isn't that architects and urban planners elsewhere can simply drop them down in the middle of their cities. Rather, it is that design professionals should allow healthy cities to develop in the directions toward which they are trending naturally, acting more like midwives than surgeons."" --Architectural Record ""If you read one book about Japan this year, it should be the beautiful, new Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City by Jorge Almazan and his Studiolab colleagues, including Joe McReynolds. --Market Urbanism"