Between October and December 2010 Krijn Christiaansen and Cathelijne Montens (KCCM) searched, through many walks and bicycle-rides along the expressways, train tracks and bus lines in Tokyo, for hidden myths and stories that… Read More…
‘Compactness and visual aesthetics, stressed in so many areas of Japanese landscape, are especially developed in the ekiben (lunch boxes) sold on trains and at railway stations, where limitations of space and… Read More…
‘Tokyo is different from other cities of the world (Cybrwsky 1998). It is one of the few great cities left that has not been reduced to blandness by sociological and economic segregation… Read More…
‘By finding residual spaces inside the closely packed urban field, and using human action to turn those surfaces into sports fields, the elements of the city gain a whole new appearance. The… Read More…
‘Wie veel reist krijgt last van een glijdende tijd en ruimte ervaring, alles wordt vloeiend. Het lijkt wel of je geen contact meer kunt onderhouden met de realiteit. Dit fenomeen is door… Read More…
‘However the pressure of a new fabric on an older fabric is very great as a result of the high price of land. Not incorrectly, Jinnai states that for us Westerners the… Read More…
‘At the start of the 19th century, the culture of the common people reached its height. Around this time, Fuji-ko, the cult of worshipping Mount Fuji, grew in popularity, and apparently people… Read More…
‘Ik herinner me een gesprek in een net niet meer communistisch Europees land kort na de Wende. Mijn gesprekspartner brak een viltstif doormidden, om me te verklaren waarom het communisme niet meer… Read More…
‘“Subdivurban” refers to patterns that emerge when a suburb is subdivided after being swallowed in a wave of urbanization. Okusawa, located about ten kilometres from Tokyo station, was developed as Tokyo’s first… Read More…
‘We vergeten nog al eens dat de ruimtes niet alleen in gebouwen en door gebouwen ontstaan, maar dat er ook ruimte tússen gebouwen bestaat. “De ruimte tussen de gebouwen is een absolute… Read More…
‘Many festivals in Japan have their origins in tradition and are related to the annual cycle of planting, growing and harvesting, which followed the four seasons. Festivals were observed when a major… Read More…
‘Tokyo has only about a 10 percent allocation of open space. Most of it is found in gardens and parks. One of Tokyo’s finest gardens, deep in the urban folds of lidabasi,… Read More…
‘No modern nation is tidier than Japan. The Japanese are quite sensitive to environment in their immediate vicinity but a bit indifferent to the outside world. The clean-tilled fields, the trimmed terrace… Read More…
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Krijn Christiaansen & Cathelijne Montens (KCCM)
Herenweg 260
2211 VD Noordwijkerhout
The Netherlands