Publisher's Synopsis
Today, Tokyo is the largest metropolis in the world. In 2050, it will be the first megacity in human history to experience a rapid decrease in population and vast deterioration of its infrastructure, and the same fate awaits other, smaller cities in Japan and in other locations throughout the world. In 'Fiber City' Hidetoshi Ohno, a prominent urban theorist and architecture, advances a new theory of urbanism to address the urgent issues facing shrinking cities in a postindustrial era. Written in both Japanese and English, the book recasts local communities in urban settings as 'fibre units' connecting them in ingenious ways so their information, transportation, and industrial networks, as well as their landscapes, can be more efficiently and sustainably designed.
