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A little house in the ruins of Tokyo
Remembering an old visitor on the 80th anniversary of the firebombing
Mar 10
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Sam Holden
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January 2025
Labyrinth progress, Sento exhibition, Tokyo podcast
Some short updates after a busy start to the year
Jan 31
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Sam Holden
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December 2024
Inari-yu wins top UNESCO prize in Asia
A step forward in our bathhouse work; Onomichi fundraising making progress
Dec 15, 2024
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Sam Holden
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Inari-yu wins top UNESCO prize in Asia
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Hints from Japan's hillsides
Slopes tell us about the past, enrich the present, and let us think about the future
Dec 8, 2024
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Sam Holden
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November 2024
The path from home to here
Becoming an urbanist by way of Denver, Niigata, and Tokyo
Nov 29, 2024
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Sam Holden
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Two systems of architecture
Thoughts on producing space, and my dream bath at Labyrinth House
Nov 13, 2024
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Sam Holden
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What we're building at Labyrinth House
Help us complete our community commons in Onomichi
Nov 7, 2024
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Sam Holden
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October 2024
Housekeeping & crowdfunding
New website, plus fundraising for Labyrinth House beginning this week
Oct 20, 2024
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Sam Holden
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Trains from the past, trains to the future
Where Japan's railways are headed in a post-growth world
Oct 10, 2024
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Sam Holden
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September 2024
Sento, slums & the origins of Tokyo today
Join me for an urbanist walk through the birth and life of a Tokyo neighborhood
Sep 8, 2024
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Sam Holden
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August 2024
Japan’s neighborhood watering holes
The humble kakuuchi nourishes the cyclical rhythms of urban life
Aug 17, 2024
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Sam Holden
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June 2024
The akiya influencers have arrived
Japan's vacant houses are now a global social media trend
Jun 5, 2024
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Sam Holden
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April 2024
On losing pieces of the city
Urban change is good, but preserving the past matters too
Apr 16, 2024
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Sam Holden
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The analog wonder of "Perfect Days"
What a Tokyo film tells us about the urban experience
Apr 11, 2024
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Sam Holden
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A few project updates
Sento & Neighborhood exhibition, speaking at Minka Summit in Kyoto, and Tokyo Little House renovations
Apr 10, 2024
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Sam Holden
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January 2024
The hole beneath our house
On hidden pitfalls and vanished mountains
Jan 4, 2024
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Sam Holden
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September 2023
Inari-yu Nagaya in the spotlight & how the quake made Tokyo
Our project is featured in prominent architectural magazine. It's also a product of the Tokyo quake 100 years ago
Sep 12, 2023
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Sam Holden
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August 2023
Excavating bathhouse geographies
The city and world look different at different scales. Sento offer a way to see locally
Aug 17, 2023
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Sam Holden
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July 2023
More on Tokyo demographics & the spiky bucket
How will the post-growth future arrive in Tokyo?
Jul 17, 2023
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Sam Holden
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Why the post-growth megacity still gets redeveloped
If Tokyo is a post-growth city, why is it chopping down Gaien's trees to build towers?
Jul 9, 2023
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Sam Holden
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Why the post-growth megacity still gets redeveloped
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March 2023
The cardboard grandpa
A visitor from another world brings me the most extraordinary gift
Mar 10, 2023
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Sam Holden
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New technology in the post-growth city, or my misgivings about the smart city
Q&A about my work (1)
Mar 8, 2023
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Sam Holden
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Zoom talk @ 4PM PST March 7 about my work
"Urban Life and Spatial Cultures in Post-Growth Japan"
Mar 5, 2023
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Sam Holden
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December 2022
Towns made of salt / Inari-yu on NHK World
Seeing beauty amid a dissolving world
Dec 31, 2022
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Sam Holden
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