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"This manuscript examines the relationship between architecture, urban design, and science fiction in postwar Japan, focusing on Metabolism, an avant-garde architectural movement formed in 1960 and influenced by the science fiction of Komatsu Sakyão, who collaborated with Metabolist architects during the 1970 World Expo in Osaka. By envisioning both utopian and apocalyptic (sci-fi) futures, Metabolist architects imagined large-scale megastructures based on biological concepts"--
Sommario
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. City Visions: Metabolism and Science Fiction
2. Ruined Cities: Isozaki Arata and Komatsu Sakyô
3. Planetary Cities: Komatsu Sakyô’s Disaster Fiction
4. Future City: The 1970 Osaka Expo
5. Liquid Cities: The Technopolis from Expo to Cyberpunk
6. Metabolist Echoes: Akira, Patlabor, and Yanobe Kenji
Notes
Selected Filmography
Bibliography
Index
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William O. Gardner is professor of Japanese language, literature, and film at Swarthmore College. He is author of
Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920s.
