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Tokyo Urban Innovation Reading List

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

Inclusive Cities, Video & Webcasts

Inclusive Cities – Vanessa Dsouza

In this session , we speak to Vanessa D’Souza who works with women, children and public health and safety systems.

Vanessa D’Souza has served as CEO of SNEHA since March 2013, after a volunteering stint with SNEHA. Prior to that, she worked with Citibank India in various positions, her last role being: Director, Citigroup Private Bank. During her tenure with Citibank she worked across various divisions including Non-Resident Indian Business, Corporate Bank, Project Re-engineering and eventually with the Private Bank. She won the coveted Citicorp Chairman’s Service Excellence Award in 1989 for exemplary performance. She holds a Bachelors (Honours) degree in Economics and a postgraduate degree in Management with a specialization in Marketing. Vanessa pursued the Management Executive Development Programme at Stanford University, USA sponsored by Citibank. She also holds a postgraduate Diploma in Public Health Nutrition. She was a Dasra Social Impact Fellow in 2015 and attended their Leadership Programme for non-profit executives. Recently, Vanessa has been a recipient of the Mother Teresa Social Leadership Scholarship, to attend the Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management Programme at Harvard Business School in 2017.

Urban Manifesto, Video & Webcasts

Urban Manifesto – Sustainability Strategies

In this session on Sustainability Strategies we speak to Tara Gbolade, architect and co-founder Gbolade Design Studio and Julian Marwitz, Founder of Urbanomy, urban and energy planning consultancy.

RIBAJ Rising Star Winner, Tara is a Co-Founder of GDS. She previously worked at Mace Group and RG+P Architects, where she was responsible for the strategic organisation and growth of the company, while successfully leading exciting and challenging residential developments for private and public-sector clients. With her expertise in design and planning policy, Tara leads the Harlow & Gilston Garden Town Sustainability Strategy, and sits on a few Design/Quality Review Panels including; Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, Lambeth, and Merton Councils – advising the council on major planning applications. ​

Julian Marwitz has studied law and sustainable urban development in Geneva, Hong Kong, Germany and at the University of Oxford. During his studies he founded several companies and worked in corporations such as Microsoft, Volkswagen, SAP and Allianz. Some of his major achievements include winning the largest startup competition for pupils in Germany, contributing towards a new legal convention for the UNEP and participating regularly at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Julian was formerly the Executive Assistant to the CEO of JLL in London and Development Manager of ECE, European market leader in shopping malls. He is passionate about sustainability, travelling, building technologies and the development of megacities.

Urban Manifesto, Video & Webcasts

Urban Manifesto-The Future of Development

In Urban Manifesto Series , we are creating a manifesto for a happier, healthier and liveable urban future as the world transitions from the COVID emergency into a new era. In this session we discuss “ Future of Development” with Jonny Anstead’s , founding Director of TOWN and Surendra Hiranandani, Founder and Managing Director, House of Hiranandani.

Urban Manifesto is co-hosted by Lucy Bullivant, place strategist, author & founder of Urbanista.org and Prathima Manohar, founder of think-do-tank The Urban Vision. We are partnering with the Architecture Foundation as part of its ongoing 100 Day Studio online initiative: https://www.architecturefoundation.or…

Jonny is founding Director of TOWN, a developer with a focus on delivering well-designed and sustainable homes, streets and neighbourhoods. Set up in 2014, TOWN works at varying scales, including community-led housing projects of 20–40 homes, mixed-use, residential-led town centre regeneration schemes, and large-scale urban extensions. TOWN is the developer of Marmalade Lane, a 42-home cohousing project in Cambridge. At larger scale, Jonny is leading TOWN’s work on a 5,500-home new quarter of Cambridge, in partnership with U+I Plc.

Surendra Hiranandani, Founder and Managing Director, House of Hiranandani has the distinction of transforming barren land into some of India’s most vibrant lifespaces. The real estate projects undertaken by his firm over the years across Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad visibly blend aesthetic beauty with practicality and sustenance. He is a pioneer in introducing indigenous species of trees and shrubs into the fabric of urban communities. Today his company is synonymous with innovation, quality construction, superior design and adherence to delivery schedules. Surendra Hiranandani has been globally recognised for his outstanding contribution to the real estate sector, particularly for his architectural acumen. He has also been honoured with numerous awards such as, for adapting the best of foreign technology to the skills of Indian engineering and labour artistry by the American Concrete Institute; not to mention a fellowship from the Indian Plumbing Association for his contribution to the plumbing profession – He is credited with the introduction of copper plumbing and the use of fly ash in concrete across the country.