Sharing Tokyo

Name: Sharing Tokyo
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SKU: 9781638400608
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Artifice and the Social World

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Sharing Tokyo is a collection of essays and drawings exploring how Tokyo's urban space can be shared through the integration of artifice and social interaction. Featuring insights from scholars, architects, urbanists, and photographers from Japan and the US, it presents innovative practices and speculative experiments in urbanism and architecture. Though centred on Tokyo, its perspectives have broader relevance for contemporary cities worldwide.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book is ideal for students and professionals in architecture, urban planning, and cultural studies, as well as readers interested in contemporary city development and innovative urbanism.

The book questions how "artifice" and the "social world" can be mutually and constructively integrated so that the contemporary urban space can be shared by all.

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Sharing Tokyo is a collection of essays and drawings on the theme of sharing the urban space of Tokyo.

The book questions how 'artifice' and the 'social world' can be mutually and constructively integrated so that the contemporary urban space can be shared by all. A variety of innovative practices are presented by a diverse group of contributors, including renowned scholars, architects, urbanists, and photographers from Japan and the US, and the research team at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

While the discourses and architectural works presented deal with the specificity of Tokyo, they were carefully selected to formulate a collection of insights, new perspectives, and speculative experiments in urbanism and architecture that can also be used in other contexts.

With contributions by: Mustafa K. Abadan, Shin Aiba, Homi K. Bhabha, Kenta Hasegawa, Kozo Kadowaki, Hiroto Kobayashi, Masami Kobayashi, Japan Research Initiative Team at Harvard GSD, Jouji Kurumado, Seiji M. Lippit, Mitsuyoshi Miyazaki, Mayumi Mori, Mohsen Mostafavi, Jo Nagasaka, Erika Nakagawa, Don O'keefe, Yoshihiko Oshima, Kayoko Ota, Jordan Sand, Yoshihiko Sone, Tsubame Architects, Riken Yamamoto, Shun Yoshie

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Praised for its thoughtful and original approach, Sharing Tokyo offers an informative and comprehensive look at urban challenges faced by Tokyo. It combines detailed criticism with architectural insight, earning strong recommendations for academic and professional collections. Experts highlight its analysis of grassroots projects and the dynamic tension between economic activity and human needs.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781638400608

Publisher: Actar Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 January 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Actar Publishers

Contributors:

Edited by Mohsen Mostafavi
Edited by Kayoko Ota

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 239.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 428

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Mohsen Mostafavi is an architect and educator who served as dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. As a professor of design, he is now leading the Japan Research Initiative, among other programs. His books include Ethics of the Urban: The City and the Spaces of the Political (2017). Kayoko Ota is an architectural curator and editor. Before joining the Japan Research Initiative at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, she curated Japan-based projects for the Canadian Centre for Architecture and was commissioner of the Japan Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale.