丹下 健三 Tange Kenzo, A Plan for Tokyo 19601961. Photo: Kawasumi Akio

Kenzo Tange’s famous (and fanciful) plan to develop a floating city on top of Tokyo Bay. This plan may have been an inspiration for Neo Tokyo in AKIRA (see: Where did the bomb fall in AKIRA?)

For more about Kenzo Tange and the Metabolism architecture movement, see:
METABOLISM: (not) like a cancer grows – artistic expression as alternative success narrative 芸術表現

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