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Book Review: The Making of Urban Japan

April 28, 2022 By Salim Furth

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. But if you read two books about Japan, as you should, the second one should be André Sorensen's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book Review, Culture & Books, Places & Spaces, planning, sprawl, Uncategorized, Urban[ism] Legends, World Tagged With: Andre Sorensen, japan, planning, tokyo

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