Faces of New Tokyo: Entertainment Districts and Everyday Life during the Interwar Years

Tipton, Elise K.

doi:10.1080/10371397.2013.816240

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“…As Ohno (2016) states, these places are built not only on Tokyo’s physical boundaries (near slopes, river crossings or at the edge of urbanized areas) but also constitute part of its socio-cultural “cracks”: places where the marginal, the outlaws, the outcast gather, where the culturally irreverent seek news and ideas from abroad, and where the artists and the theatres performers sparkle (Tipton, 2013). If the wide commercial street is the place in which vibrant and colourful signs compete to catch one’s attention to the multi-story buildings where small and large shopping and even restaurants locate, in the back and lower fabric discreteness is where the common feature is likely to be found.…”

Section: Tokyo: Between Metropolitan Network and Fine-grain Fabricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tokyo, Japan – urbanistic hybridity in a networked metropolis

Santos¹

2021

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Purpose This paper aims to identify relevant innovations in Tokyo’s spatial articulation of infrastructure, building and public space, intertwining large-scale networks with local scale urban fabrics, to inform urban management towards sustainable urban transitions. Design/methodology/approach The research used a methodological combination of literature review, relevant case identification and analysis, on-site survey and photography, morphological interpretation through cartographic analysis and urban space and architectural redrawing and discussion under the conceptual framework. Findings Under Japan’s cultural construct, public/private thresholds are blurred and layered, defining a public space network which includes not only large-scale urban objects, such as railroad and commercial hubs but also small scale, hybrid and rather aweless forms of urban space, which can be of interest to the challenges of sustainable urban transition. Research limitations/implications Adaptations in urban management and design need to consider the multi-scalar embeddedness of urban networks in local fabrics, considering public space structure and socio-cultural specificities. Limitations to growth-oriented rationale require increasingly decentralized networks and more hybrid spatial configurations in buildings, infrastructures and public space. Originality/value Tokyo represents an example of how a network-dependent metropolis, accommodates highly adaptive, inconspicuous and decentralized forms of basic service provision with an impact on the perception, use and management of public space. The main argument lies in the potential that these spatial arrangements hold as references for contemporary urban management and design in what pertains to societal challenges, low-carbon transition and network optimization.

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Section: Tokyo: Between Metropolitan Network and Fine-grain Fabricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tokyo, Japan – urbanistic hybridity in a networked metropolis

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2021

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“…As the sociologist Nozomu Ikei explains, the pleasures of socializing in the company of large crowds is the peculiar draw of the sakariba and big city living (cited in Linhart, 1998). In his "Shinjuku Sketch", the writer Ryūtanji suggests that Shinjuku embodies a "modern tempo" that is engendered by the mass movement of crowds during the busy commuting hours of the day (cited in Tipton, 2013).…”

Section: Reflections: the Enchantment Of City Crowdsmentioning

confidence: 99%