Inside Our July-August 2022 Concern

From an architectural viewpoint, Tokyo is in contrast to every other metropolis on Earth. It is a huge, sprawling metropolis that’s always rising and evolving at breakneck pace. As we sit in our workplace on the thirty first ground of the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower constructing, it appears like we’ve front-row seats to the perfect present on the town. So far as the attention can see, bold new buildings below building pepper the skyline, competing for house with shrines, parks and shotengai that have not modified for generations.

On the floor, it is very obscure how Tokyo works as a metropolis. As you stroll by nearly any neighborhood, city planning appears to be one thing of an afterthought. Model new, high-end business actual property mixes with retro purchasing streets and residential properties with none apparent rhyme or motive. And that is exactly why Tokyo is such a novel and engaging place to reside. It does not make sense however someway it nonetheless works.

On this difficulty, we had been fortunate sufficient to talk with some specialists of their respective fields who had been in a position to give us the within observe on how this metropolis is evolving. From the inside to the outside and every part in between, we have tried our greatest to make sense of the forces shaping the panorama of the town.

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