La figura della città nuova. Il Piano per Tokyo 1960 Tange Lab : (Kenzo Tange con Koji Kamiya, Arata Isozaki, Sadao Watanabe, Kisho Kurokawa, Heiki Koh)

In 1957, the Tokyo Regional Plan proposed to decompress the pressure on the centre of the capital, the population of which had risen from 3 million and a half in 1945 to almost 10 million in the 1960s – tripling the number of inhabitants in 15 years – by creating a series of satellite cities around the edge of the urban sprawl. Ten alternative projects were proposed over the next four years by various interested parties ranging from high state bureaucrats and business executives to well-established professionals and young up-and-coming Japanese architects. All these solutions, contrary to the official project, focus future development of the conurbation on the bay facing the city. By far the best-known and the most interesting, for the repercussions it will have on epistemological and disciplinary debate in years to come, is the second proposal presented by Kenzo Tange and his group of collaborators, formed by young architects who will soon become some of the preeminent figures of Metabolism.