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Jun. 10th, 2015|11:33 am |
roland barthes, who visited japan several times in the late 1960s, describes tokyo, with the imperial palace at its heart, as not having a "filled" center where political, economic, cultural, and civic interchange converges, but a "central emptiness" un his book empire of signs.
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it is obvious that the city does not have one great plaza or street that forms the pivot of city's communal life - there is no place that can be called the centre of the city.
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tokyo also lacks any clear lines demarcating the boundary what is in the city and what is outside the city.
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barthes also noted that tokyo's streets usually do not have names. |
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