The urbanism of Metabolism: visions, scenarios and models for the mutant city of tomorrow

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: The Logic of Metabolism -- Introduction -- 1 Back from Behind the Curtain of Oblivion: Metabolism and the Postwar Actuality of Japan -- 2 The Aesthetics and/or Formalism of Change: Paradoxes and Contradictions in the Metabolist Movement -- 3 Engineering a Poetic Techno-urbanism: The Metabolists' Visionary City in Postwar Japan -- 4 The Metabolists in Context -- 5 The Infrastructure of Care: Metabolist Architecture as a Social Catalyst -- 6 "Sunday Carpenter" Metabolism: Artificial-Land Housing and Resident Decision-Making -- 7 Maki and Dutch Team X: Step towards Group Form -- 8 Kiyonori Kikutake circa 2011: Sustaining Life through Metabolism -- 9 Metabolism as Survival Architecture -- 10 Metabolism Adventure: A Personal View -- 11 This is Your City: The Pop Future Foretold by Metabolism -- 12 Spaceship Earth: Metabolist Capsules, the Petro-economy, and Geoengineering -- 13 An Eternal Return? Considering the Temporality and Historicity of Metabolism -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index.