Shrinking Montevideo

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STATE OF JAPAN

TO K YO

This statement aptly suggest that i f you are to search the divine or cosmic order in city of Tokyo, probability i s that you might not find any kind of visible

order

which

your

eye i s

conventionally

familiar with. Tokyo defies order o n its own way. While Tokyo appears unplanned, i t possess a hidden sense of order, but this is the order of fragmented unity,

village-like

areas

stapled

together,

possessing a feeling o f chaos that many architects have found inspiring. Tokyo has long been criticised for

its

lack o f

greenery

and

its

poor

disaster

mitigation efforts.

POPULATION LOSS

13.500.000 13.160.000 12.780.000

2010

2020

2035

Security Research has warned that there will be a mere 49.59 million Japanese by 2100, a decline of more than 61 percent on the 2010 figure [Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications- Japan]


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