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Dispatches from Post-growth Japan

Sam Holden

Urbanism and stories from my renovation projects and research in Tokyo and Onomichi, Japan

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Yes, you should go to Nagasaki

I’ll be in the hillside community of Shioya in Kobe on February 14-15 as part of a two-day event on local urbanism. On the afternoon of 2/15, I’ll be introducing my work during a two-hour talk (in Japanese). If you’re in Kansai, please take...

4 months ago
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Sento and saunas

Tokyo Yokujo in Shinagawa, one of 80 remaining traditionally-built sento in Tokyo.

Happy New Year! Yesterday I woke up around 5:45 and biked through the near-freezing cold to Inari-yu Nagaya to serve amazake, a sweet rice drink, to about 6...

5 months ago
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The Line was the zenith of our age of insanity

Ozymandias vibes

Future histories of these unreal times will need to include a paragraph on The Line. It was the ultimate embodiment of the spirit of our age, when crypto grifters co-opt nation states, billionaire boys fling their toy rock...

6 months ago
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A roof in the rain

We just wrapped up our 38th week of construction at Labyrinth House. This month also marks five years since we started, which pencils out to about a sixth of the last half-decade of my life spent rebuilding these houses in Onomichi. I’m wri...

7 months ago
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Osaka Airbnb-ification

I stopped by Osaka in late September in order to see the World Expo before it closed last week. I haven’t seen many compelling critiques of the expo (just a few in Japanese, none so far in English), mostly because there is little interestin...

7 months ago
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