Todai-Yale Initiative Lecture Series -- Heritage, Landscape and Sustainable Urbanism: the Life of a Historic Port Town in Japan
Naoto Nakajima - Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering University of Tokyo
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Room B51, Jeffrey Loria Center for the History of Art
190 York Street
New Haven, CT
6511
This presentation will offer an image of Japanese sustainable urbanism, based on the experience of preservation and revitalization of the Japanese historic port town of Tomo, which has been wavering between accepting and refusing the proposed public landfill and bridge building project since 1983.
Sponsored by the Todai-Yale Initiative
Region:
Japan