USC Price planning students examine Tokyo in flux
The 11 graduate students in the USC Price School of Public Policy’s recent international planning studio examined Tokyo as a city in flux, changing minute to minute, day to day, week to week. “Cities like Tokyo do not have an easily decipherable urban form like European and American ones, leading many to read them superficially as being chaotic and disorganized,” said Vinayak Bharne, faculty member at USC Price and the USC School of Architecture, who led the studio. “The fact is they have their own sophisticated orders and workings that we do not understand. My intention was to encourage students to look at cities beyond form, as events in time, as phenomena in flux.”