Still City Project
The Still City Project investigates how we can move beyond the driving forces of our modern industrialized world; infinite economic growth, technologic progress and population growth. The project is a search for the 'Still City': an urban culture that is based on dynamics that are inclusive and sustainable. The ambition of the project is to find and make the images and stories we need to construct a post-growth urban society. — read more
The Still City Project
Power to the People
Still City Tokyo
- — All posts
- — The Tokyo Still City Guide
- — Why Tokyo?
- — The Workshop
- — Workshop Participants
- — The Location
- — The Program
- — The Workshop Brochure
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House in Koenji, Tokyo 2012
Urban Planning: No Plan — Tokyo is a young metropolis. One can argue that it did not exist a hundred and fifty years ago. Its modern urban texture is not directly interwoven with the remnants of humble origins or an even more glorious past. There are few architectural reminders that can evoke historical sentimentalism, but they are scattered and disconnected and resist a historical reading of how the city grew. Basically, Tokyo has no plan. Strong private ownership and the sheer impossibility to expropriate plots characterize Tokyo’s planning endeavor more as a continuous negotiation with the forces at play, than the careful execution of a master-plan.