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A plan for Tokyo 1960 / Kenzo Tange
(..) The ideals of the Metabolist Manifesto were perhaps best exhibited and advocated by Kenzo Tange in his 1960 Plan for Tokyo. In 1958 the Tokyo Regional Plan was released, which proposed a series of satellite cities and general decentralization to solve Tokyo’s rapid population boom (rising from 3.5 million in 1945 to 10 million in 1960).
Tange argued that the movement that the automobile introduced into urban life had changed peoples’ perception of space and that this required a new spatial order for the city in the form of the megastructure, not merely a continuation of the radial zoning status quo. He proposed a linear megastructure based on a ‘fixed’ open network of highways and subways around which a ‘transient’ program would create as the population’s needs dictated. The scheme, featuring a linear series of interlocking loops expanding Tokyo across the bay, has often been regarded as initiating the decade-long megastructural movement. (Continua)
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