Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City Paperback – April 12, 2022

Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City is a book that challenges the western view of Tokyo as a chaotic urban jungle and instead offers a practical, systematic, and objective view of the city. The book provides insight into the city's history, its potential future, and the threats to community life presented by commercial redevelopment. The book is engaging with many pages of photos and diagrams, and readers feel like Emergent Tokyo dismantled some of their preconceptions of the city and replaced them with practical knowledge. The book is praised for being carefully researched and a treasure trove of information about how Tokyo's idiosyncratic neighborhoods have evolved over decades.