The Transformation of Tokyo During the 1950s and Early 1960s Projects Between City Planning and Urban Utopia

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 253-260

  Pernice, Raffaele ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Metabolism; Modern Japanese architecture; Postwar Japan; Tokyo; Urban design; Utopia

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054855579     PISSN: 13467581     EISSN: 13472852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3130/jaabe.5.253     Document Type: Article

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13. Ward Stephen V., Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945, Palgrave Macmillian Ltd, 2003, pp. 6–7; Regarding the plan prepared for Datong, according to Ward: “… much was very directly borrowed [by other sources], particularly the standard neighborhood plan, which was virtually identical to one applied in Detroit in the early 1930s” p. 154.
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