The Unfulfilled Promise of the Nagakin Capsule Tower
Years before the eventual demolition of Kisho Kurokawa’s landmark Metabolist prefab project, a writer traveled to Tokyo for a look at a future that never was.
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This story was originally published in Dwell’s May 2008 issue.
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Tom Vanderbilt
Broolyn–based writer Tom Vanderbilt's book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), from publisher Alfred A. Knopf, was published in 2008.
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