Autore
Follaco, Gala Maria

Titolo
Tokyo, una metropoli asiatica Trasformazioni e rappresentazioni del paesaggio urbano nel Novecento
Periodico
Memoria e ricerca
Anno: 2020 - Volume: 64 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 267 - Pagina finale: 288

In Japan the fascination with height has always been mitigated by theneed for stability and resilience in areas notoriously vulnerable to seismic events. Tokyo boastsan impressive number of skyscrapers and tall buildings, with a futuristic skyline that has nowbecome iconic, but such a profusion is grounded in a long-established research agenda aimedat ensuring safety and preventing disasters. Urban developers, in the last 150 years, have beentackling these issues while running a modernization project based mainly on Western standards.The ever-changing cityscapes have been fueling the imagination and expectations of theirinhabitants, leading to a massive and diverse literary – and, more extensively, cultural – productionthat offers valuable insights into the effects of urban change on people’s life and mind.My contribution will consider writings, films, and songs that deal with this transformation andreveal tensions and conflicts within Japanese cities from the 1860s to the present.



SICI: 1127-0195(2020)64:2<267:TUMATE>2.0.ZU;2-4
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