roomthily

Tokyo Arteria (Takatsugu Kuriyama, 2009)

via NOTCOT.ORG

thingsmagazine:

The Tokyo Zoo Project (via Pop-up City / things)

tl81:

History of Tokyo. Lush.

robertogreco:

This is just one slide from Understanding the Child-Scale in the City (1): Excerpts from Rainy Day Treasures (雨の日の宝物）, by a-small-lab (Chris Berthelsen). If you work with children, live with children, or live with open eyes and a mind geared toward noticing, don’t miss the rest of the slides and the text that accompanies them.

robertogreco:

Hand Made Tokyo, by a-small-lab

For more information and photos see the book project page and the Flickr set of the same name.

Pick one spot in the city and begin to think of it as yours. It doesn’t matter where, and it doesn’t matter what. (P. Auster, 2003)

Art Space Tokyo (Rawlings and Mod) - guide to hidden art galleries in Tokyo

via a working library

chocolate map of Tokyo (Naoko Tone and Atsuyoshi Iijima)

via PingMag

What Slime Molds And Subways Have In Common, According to Scientists - io9

The slime mold Physarum polycephalum forms networks between food sources that are as efficient and fault tolerant as anything we can design. In order to test quite how good the mold is, and if it could be used to help human planning, a group of Japanese and British scientists pitted it against the Tokyo rail system, and found a surprisingly efficient result.

The scientists created a simulacrum of the area surrounding Tokyo, and placed the mold directly on the location of the city itself. Neighboring cities were marked by food sources. In order to replicate the geographical limitations of the area (mountains and lakes), light was used to create regions the mold would avoid, as it doesn’t like illumination.

MUJI Handkerchief - Tokyo

prostheticknowledge:

Tokyo Metro Network Map - Depths of the Underground