150 x 210mm, 28 pages, Colour printing, Glue bound, Softcover, Edition of 120, 2025

This publication shares some initial findings and thoughts after days spent walking around and filming in Tsukuba, a city founded in the early 1970s to relieve Tokyo of its overpopulation problems, while also building Japan’s first (proto-) Technopolis.

It is a first step toward a new project on ‘planned communities’, a term used to describe purpose-built cities, often designed as a whole and constructed in one go, as opposed to the more organically evolved settlements that most cities evolve from. The project departs from this urban form as a way to think about cities as a mode of centralisation and the engineering of the public realm as an instrument of (dis-)empowerment and (de-)collectivisation.

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