Earth's Amphibious Transformation: Tange Kenzo, Buckminster Fuller, and marine urbanization in global environmental thought (1950s–present)
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Abstract Climate change and rising sea levels, which threaten many Asian other coastal cities, have returned the question of adaptation to unstable marine surfaces global discussions about urbanization, as was illustrated by a recent United Nations (UN) roundtable. As de facto counterproposals hydroelectric dams similar regional development projects, floating or elevated structures reject land reclamation terrestrialization processes. Consequently, rapidly growing number offshore structures, often constitute unconventional settlements, contributed an amphibious transformation Earth's surface in course twentieth early twenty-first centuries. This meant that both terrestrial aquatic places turned into human habitats. article asks how why today's leading environmental-political strand large-scale urbanization emerged from waters Tokyo Bay. It investigates Japanese star architect Tange Kenz?'s ‘Plan for 1960’ (1961) world-renowned American designer R. Buckminster Fuller's design called ‘Tetrahedronal City’ (1966). Emphasizing important role cities played shaping ideas practices, Bay became node cybernetics revolution moved urban information age. Tange's evolution-inspired cybernetic designs used post-war communication technology replicate, through artificial networks, biological systems enable organisms interact with their environments. Applying recreate, processes growth, adaptation, mobility, autonomy central reducing its ecological footprint.
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عنوان ژورنال: Modern Asian Studies
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1469-8099', '0026-749X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x21000251