Defining the Urban Condition: Accelerating Change in the Geography of Power

Edo/Tokyo's Genius Loci and the Cybernetic Agora

International Proceedings

Author(s): Shun Kanda

It is often said that beneath the apparent chaos and paradoxical duplicity of Tokyo’s genius loci lies a hidden order. In fact, this city, from its exuberant days of Edo to the anatopic phenomena of its modem day version, is made coherent by a connectivity of timelevent over space – not by the continuity of physicaVspatia1 “place”.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Intl.1995.43

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