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Tokyo: A brief history of a capital in motion

As a whole, the shape of [Japanese] cities is extremely unstable and undefined.
—Yoshinobu Ashihara

Perhaps the single most important force driving Tokyo’s incessant development is instability. The lecture traces the manifold sources that have led to a culture favouring the ephemeral over the stable, the ambiguous over the clearly defined.