Dispatches from Post-growth Japan

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On losing pieces of the city
Urban change is good, but preserving the past matters too
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Sam Holden
The analog wonder of "Perfect Days"
What a Tokyo film tells us about the urban experience
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Sam Holden
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A few project updates
Sento & Neighborhood exhibition, speaking at Minka Summit in Kyoto, and Tokyo Little House renovations
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Sam Holden

January 2024

The hole beneath our house
On hidden pitfalls and vanished mountains
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Sam Holden

September 2023

Inari-yu Nagaya in the spotlight & how the quake made Tokyo
Our project is featured in prominent architectural magazine. It's also a product of the Tokyo quake 100 years ago
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Sam Holden

August 2023

Excavating bathhouse geographies
The city and world look different at different scales. Sento offer a way to see locally
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Sam Holden
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July 2023

More on Tokyo demographics & the spiky bucket
How will the post-growth future arrive in Tokyo?
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Sam Holden
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Why the post-growth megacity still gets redeveloped
If Tokyo is a post-growth city, why is it chopping down Gaien's trees to build towers?
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Sam Holden
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March 2023

The cardboard grandpa
A visitor from another world brings me the most extraordinary gift
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Sam Holden
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New technology in the post-growth city, or my misgivings about the smart city
Q&A about my work (1)
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Zoom talk @ 4PM PST March 7 about my work
"Urban Life and Spatial Cultures in Post-Growth Japan"
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Sam Holden
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December 2022

Towns made of salt / Inari-yu on NHK World
Seeing beauty amid a dissolving world
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Sam Holden
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