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Tokyo Totem - A Guide To Tokyo (English and Japanese Edition) Paperback – December 30, 2015

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This publication is the result of a collaboration between international and Japanese authors and makers from various disciplines. What they have in common is their interest and fascination with cities, and in particular Tokyos urban culture. Everybodys efforts resulted in the essays, maps, photo essays, collages, poems, mangas, and observations that have been collected in this book that is hard to categorize. It is called a guide, not because it helps you to find places to see, eat or drink, but because it helps you to read and see the city differently. Each contribution lets you experience a different city. You may look at the city through the eyes of a bathhouse connoisseur, a host, an architect, a topographer, an artist, or a child.
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    320 pages
  2. Language
    English, Japanese
  3. Publisher
    Flick Studio
  4. Publication date
    December 30, 2015
  5. Dimensions
    8.78 x 5.98 x 0.94 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    4904894286
  7. ISBN-13
    978-4904894286
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Flick Studio (December 30, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English, Japanese
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 4904894286
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-4904894286
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.78 x 5.98 x 0.94 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Julian Worrall

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Julian Worrall is an Australian architect, scholar, and critic with an international reputation as an interpreter of Japanese architecture and urbanism. He has worked as an architect and urban designer with practices in Australia, Japan, and the Netherlands, including Ushida Findlay, Klein Dytham architecture, and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, and has a PhD in Urban History from the University of Tokyo. His critical writings have been widely published and translated in both scholarly and professional journals, and he has contributed to numerous exhibitions and institutions of architectural culture worldwide, including V&A London; MAK Vienna; Strelka Moscow; MoMA New York, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. He is currently Professor of Architecture at the University of Tasmania.

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Giacomo S.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2016
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Fantastic book, full of images and cool stuff
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R.L.H (Sakura)
5.0 out of 5 stars Tokyo Totem will leave you feeling intellectually and emotionally inspired!
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2016
Tokyo Totem is one of the most stimulating, creative, and thought-provoking books I've ever had the pleasure to read. This is not your typical guidebook. It’s a juxtaposition of fascinating contributions from talented writers, artists, mangaka, designers and various other makers from Japan and all over the world. These talented creatives have skilfully provided their own unique and captivating interpretation of Tokyo and what it means to live in this mind-blowing capital city.

As you turn each page, you not only feel like you’re walking with these writers and artists on the very streets of Tokyo, you also feel like you’re looking at this city from a completely new angle. Each essay, photo, story, comic, sign, and scribble will transcend your understanding of this marvellous city. One minute you’re in a bathhouse wondering whether a yakuza member will empathize with a gaijin (foreigner), the next minute you’re learning something new about Tokyo’s unique topography or you’re looking at Tokyo’s signs and symbols from a completely different perspective. When you turn another page, you suddenly realise the idea of Metabolism (a post-war architectural movement) is very much an integral and exciting part of Japan’s architectural formation, and towards the end the section on urban commons and shared communities provides a very optimistic ending on how Japan will cope with its ageing population problems in the future.

Every section of Tokyo Totem was wonderfully inviting and stimulating so I know I’ll be returning to reread different excerpts in the future even though I’ve already finished and thoroughly enjoyed the entire book. The reason for this is because Tokyo Totem cannot help but leave you feeling intellectually and emotionally inspired by its contents. So much so, I think every designer and Japanologist should have a copy of Tokyo Totem on their coffee table, if not only for the fact that this book is beautifully presented with lovely thick paper, the colour coding for each section on the fore-edge as well as the hinge of the book delights the eye, and the cover is very cleverly designed with the word Tokyo in the shape of a totem face, set above the Japanese Hinomaru circle of the sun.
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Andrea F.
5.0 out of 5 stars Tokyo per te
Reviewed in Italy on January 4, 2021
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se ami Tokyo, non puoi non averla!
A me è piaciuta veramente molto
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