FILL. EVERY. SPACE.
by joostay
How Tokyo’s apparent lack of urban planning can actually be an urban planning model.
Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: architecture, asia, japan, photography, tokyo, urban planning
Tag: urban planning
Walking about Kampong Ayer Water Village, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
by joostay
With its own mosques, schools and police station it’s the largest stilt settlement in the world. Built entirely of stilt houses and wooden walkways, Kampong Ayer in Brunei is a collection of 42 villages housing more than 39,000 people. It is the world’s largest water village. I was lucky enough to visit Kamopong Ayer a few weeks back, and it was probably the highlight of my most recent trip to Borneo. From a distance, the water village looks like a slum, but many of the houses […]
Categories: Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: asia, borneo, brunei, bruneian, design, ikimasho, indonesia, malaysia, photography, se asia, travel, urban planning
FILL. EVERY. SPACE.
by joostay
How Tokyo’s apparent lack of urban planning can actually be an urban planning model. “First-time visitors to Tokyo may arrive with one of two fantasies dancing in their heads. One is the hyper-modern city of sleek 100-story high-rises and gleaming starchitecture. The other is the darker version: The city that inspired Blade Runner and Akira, a super-dense, technology-saturated metropolis in which Manga faces on towering billboards grin down on shootouts and chase scenes.” – Informal City Dialogues Urban planning is something […]
Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo • Tags: accra, asia, bangkok, chennai, community, growth, housing, ikimasho, Informal City Dialogues, japan, japanese, lima, manila, nairobi, Rockefeller Foundation, se asia, tokyo, tokyo. japan, urban planning
IKIMASHO! 