From an architectural viewpoint, Tokyo is not like some other metropolis on Earth. It is a huge, sprawling metropolis that’s continuously rising and evolving at breakneck velocity. As we sit in our workplace on the thirty first flooring of the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower constructing, it seems like we’ve got front-row seats to the very best present on the town. So far as the attention can see, bold new buildings beneath development pepper the skyline, competing for area with shrines, parks and shotengai that have not modified for generations.
On the floor, it’s extremely obscure how Tokyo works as a metropolis. As you stroll by way of nearly any neighborhood, city planning appears to be one thing of an afterthought. Model new, high-end industrial actual property mixes with retro procuring streets and residential properties with none apparent rhyme or cause. And that is exactly why Tokyo is such a novel and engaging place to reside. It would not make sense however one way or the other it nonetheless works.
On this subject, we have been fortunate sufficient to talk with some specialists of their respective fields who have been in a position to give us the within monitor on how this metropolis is evolving. From the inside to the outside and all the pieces in between, we have tried our greatest to make sense of the forces shaping the panorama of town.
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