{"id":4641,"date":"2021-02-26T10:02:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T10:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2021-02-26T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T10:03:00","slug":"the-tokyo-moment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=4641","title":{"rendered":"The Tokyo Moment: What Developing Cities Can Learn From The Postwar Japanese Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4642 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Bansal_01-580x838.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Bansal_01-580x838.jpg 580w, https:\/\/benbansal.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Bansal_01.jpg 761w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tokyo is Asia\u2019s first megacity: its urban agglomeration topped the symbolic ten million inhabitants marker sometime after World War II. While it had been one of the world\u2019s largest cities for centuries, arguably its most relevant growth spurt took place between 1950 and 1970. It was during this period that the already enormous urban agglomeration doubled in population. I call this phase of the city history the \u201cTokyo moment\u201d (i.e., twenty years of rapid population growth to an already large urban area).<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/themetropole.blog\/2021\/02\/25\/the-tokyo-moment-what-developing-cities-can-learn-from-the-postwar-japanese-capital\/\">whole article<\/a> on The Metropole, the Urban History Association&#8217;s official blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo is Asia\u2019s first megacity: its urban agglomeration topped the symbolic ten million inhabitants marker sometime after World War II. While it had been one of the world\u2019s largest cities for centuries, arguably its most relevant growth spurt took place &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=4641\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4646,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions\/4646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}