Post-Apocalyptic Urban Design: What can Los Angeles learn from Tokyo-III Resilient Urbanism?

[Martian_Sundays]

https://youtu.be/gJPoaD0kEK8

I'm an Architect and Urban Planner, anime has always played a huge role in my journey as a Designer. Whether it is design inspiration or simply life motivation to challenge the odds and keep going. Because Hollywood is literally in my backyard [and as our cities combat impending irreversible Climate change ] I wanted to explore what we can learn about the future of humankind from science fiction and what they got right. Tokyo-III, the other City of Angels lol, was the first case study to come to mind. What can we learn from a city designed to protect its inhabitants?

The EvaGeeks Archive was a super invaluable resource, a shoutout in the credits

Super interested in your thoughts on green infrastructure Urbanism and what Evangelion got right haha

[Blockio]

Blocked in my country :/

[Martian_Sundays]

Blocked in my country :/

Embarrassing

I believe it may be available everywhere now

[Blockio]

It is, thank you!

[ran1]

https://youtu.be/gJPoaD0kEK8

I wanted to explore what we can learn about the future of humankind from science fiction and what they got right. Tokyo-III, the other City of Angels lol, was the first case study to come to mind. What can we learn from a city designed to protect its inhabitants?

The EvaGeeks Archive was a super invaluable resource, a shoutout in the credits

Super interested in your thoughts on green infrastructure Urbanism and what Evangelion got right haha

Great video king, finished watching it (actually found it through Youtube recommendations and realized you posted it here) and I firmly agree w/ your thesis if we're assuming that the design of Tokyo-III was made with the intent of protecting inhabitants. But I'm thinking, given the nature of NERV, SEELE, and the post-Impact governments that sequestered resources to build the city, it might be that these were not designed to protect and support the inhabitants -- but to protect and support the Evas.

That's ultimately not what the individual architects and such probably intended as a design, but I'm sure most of the Tokyo-III urban planners must have realized that they were effectively contracting out to an ultimately single-minded organization, all things considered. Curious to hear your thoughts on that. Really dig the work.