{"product_id":"tsukuba-science-city-by-michiel-huijben","title":"TSUKUBA SCIENCE CITY by Michiel Huijben","description":"\u003cp\u003e150 x 210mm, 28 pages, Colour printing, Glue bound, Softcover, Edition of 120, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flat i","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57001533702530,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/5338\/0582\/files\/IMG_4258064.jpg?v=1793204208","url":"https:\/\/goodpress.co.uk\/products\/tsukuba-science-city-by-michiel-huijben","provider":"Good Press — good books \u0026 more","version":"1.0","type":"link"}