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505 0 a| City visions : metabolism and science viction -- Ruined cities : Isozaki Arata and Komatsu Sakyō -- Planetary cities : Komatsu Sakyō's disaster fiction -- Future city : the 1970 Osaka Expo -- Liquid cities : the technopolis from Expo to cyberpunk -- Metabolist echoes : Akira, Patlabor, and Yanobe Kenji.;

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The metabolist imagination visions of the city in postwar Japanese architecture and science fiction / William O. Gardner.

Author/creator	Gardner, William O., 1969
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
Description	1 online resource
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Architecture and biology--Japan. --History. --20th century. Visionary architecture--Japan. Metabolism in architecture (Movement) Archtecture and literature Future, The, in literature Science fiction, Japanese--History and criticism.

Contents	City visions : metabolism and science viction -- Ruined cities : Isozaki Arata and Komatsu Sakyō -- Planetary cities : Komatsu Sakyō's disaster fiction -- Future city : the 1970 Osaka Expo -- Liquid cities : the technopolis from Expo to cyberpunk -- Metabolist echoes : Akira, Patlabor, and Yanobe Kenji.
Abstract	"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 Sakyô, 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Source of description	Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2019027157
ISBN	9781452963129 epub
ISBN	cloth
ISBN	paperback

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