Extracts from the discussion: Designing the City with Lines
FUJIMORI Terunobu: The original concept of a city is based on "planes". It hadn't occured to me that cities of Japan were based on "lines". Perhaps it can be said that the approach to these "lines" is the fundamental theory of urban planning in Japan.
Facing the Meditarrenean Sea in the south of Turkey are the excavated ruins of the oldest city, a place called Catal Hüyük. It is a Neolithic settlement located in the region refferd to as the "Fertile Crescent" that leads from Turkey to Egypt. What's interesting about Catal Hüyük is that there are no roads. There are only houses. And so the way they got around was by walking on the roofs.
OHNO Hidetoshi: Sounds like a thesis proposal, doesn't it? (Laughter)
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