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Introduction

Acknowledgements

Preface

One

Suspending Judgment: The Post-Industrial City Transformed

The Japanese Urban Continuum

Industrial Archipelago

The Port of Nagoya

Interchange

Enterprise Zone

Terminal

Kinjo Pier Logistics Terminal

Interface

The Bridge of Hesitation

Strategies of the Void

Workplace

Two

Generic City

The Ville Radieuse Legacy

The Radiant City in Japan

Agents of Transformation and the "Death" of Urbanism

Nagoya’s New City

Mobility vs. Proximity

The Problem of Quantity

Preeminence of the Decorated Shed

Dead Space

Defunct Strategies

The Fourth Skin

Trauma of the New Interior

Death of the Façade

Zero-Degree Architecture

The Workplace Revisited

Three

Staging Uncertainty

Vivicities

Infratecture

Unveiling the Hidden Order

The New Fringe

Cité Post-Industrielle

Wiring the City

Complex Program

Eye of the Storm

In Place of the Public?

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A Master's Thesis in Architecture at Rice University by Blaine Brownell.

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