{"id":524596,"date":"2026-01-18T07:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/524596\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T07:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:06:11","slug":"tokyos-development-boom-is-a-failure-pritzker-winning-architect-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/524596\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo&#8217;s development boom is a &#8216;failure,&#8217; Pritzker-winning architect says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/society\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Riken Yamamoto claims megaprojects erode community life and risk leaving the capital with obsolete buildings<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20260115 Riken Yamamoto\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Pritzker Prize-winning architect Riken Yamamoto speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15. (Photo by Andrew Sharp)<\/p>\n<p>ANDREW SHARP<\/p>\n<p>January 18, 2026 09:00 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Pritzker Prize-winning architect Riken Yamamoto has warned that Tokyo&#8217;s current wave of large-scale urban renewal is failing residents and eroding the social fabric that once defined Japan&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Society Riken Yamamoto claims megaprojects erode community life and risk leaving the capital with obsolete buildings Pritzker Prize-winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":524597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[52529,648,1032,82487,1033,2556,171,42474,1622,50,233144,8719,233143,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-524596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architect","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-boom","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-development","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-failure","16":"tag-is","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-pritzker-winning","19":"tag-says","20":"tag-tokyos","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115914839363560518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}