Recommended Reading List

We’ve curated a selection of readings that highlight Tokyo’s strides in sustainable urban development, resilience, and inclusivity.

Overview

·       Learning From Tokyo

·       Tokyo’s Large-scale Urban Redevelopment Projects  and their Processes

·       What’s behind Tokyo’s massive redevelopment?

Mixed Use & Integrated Developments

·       Tokyo, the Roppongi Hills, and Vertical Urbanism

·       Tokyo Transformed: A Journey Through Urban Innovation

Tokyo Urbanism- Transit Oriented Development

·       A case study focuses on Shibuya Station Development

·       Tokyo Station – Yaseu

·       A Green Third Place is Born at the Gateway to Tokyo —Tokyo Station Yaesu Development

·       Not Just a Train Stop: The Evolution of Transit-Oriented Developments in East Asia

·       How Tokyo’s Transportation Network Massively Increase Real Estate Prices

Heritage Regeneration

·       The Evolution of Ginza’s Urban Landscape

Urban Regeneration, Waterfront Development & Housing

·       Takeshiba Area Urban Development- Tokyo Port City

·        “The Big City Where Housing Is Still Affordable

·       How Tokyo’s Public Housing Defined Japan’s Middle Class

Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City”

·       Why Neighborhoods and Small Businesses Thrive in Tokyo

·       Demystified Tokyo Offers an Alternative Paradigm of Urban Planning—A Review of “Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City”

·       Omotesando – The World’s Best Outdoor Modern Architecture Museum

·       An Ode to Tokyo’s Public Toilets

·       Tokyo – Mess is More

Placemaking & Urban Revival

·       Place Management in Japan

·       Mitsubishi Estate and Marunouchi – Urban development will continue 100 years later

·       From ghost town to weekend pedestrian haven: Marunouchi

·       Why Marunouchi Has the Most People-friendly Urban Design in Tokyo