Tokyo For all of the talk about what is wrong with the fools in New Orleans to have located their city in such an environmental crossfire, the attitude in Tokyo, the world’s largest city, seems to be to choose “safe rather than sorry.” The city is built in a mix of mayhem. Rivers frequently flooded areas …
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Matsumoto Machizukuri Leader
Kobe We were all excited about meeting with a community leader who had been active in the ‘push and shove’ of getting citizen input within the Kobe planning process. We had read the pre–publication chapters of Professor Olshanksy’s book, so we knew that citizens were only able to find any voice at all late in …
Matsumoto: A Stream Runs Through It
Kobe We had been having trouble connecting with some of the planners and professors in our own version of the Sophia Coppola movie, ‘Lost in Translation,’ so we left from Shinkobe (the Kobe subway train station) in plenty of time. Professor Ohnishi had told us to meet his colleague Ikuo Kobayashi, the President of CO–PLAN …