Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan, authored by Dr. Zhongjie Lin, a member of IACP and assistant professor of University of North Carolina at Charlotte, has been published by Routledge in February 2010. This book is the first full-length critical account of Japanese utopian movement of urbanism in the 1960s call the Metabolism. The book examines the Metabolist visionary plans in the context of Japan's mass urban reconstruction, economic miracle, and socio-political reorientation. At the root of the Metabolist urban utopias was a particular notion of the city as an organic process. It moved away from the Modernist paradigm of urbanism and led to such radical design concepts as artificial land, marine civilization, metabolic cycle, megastructure, and group form, which embodied the Metabolists' ideals of social change. The book traces the evolution of Metabolism from its inception at the 1960 World Design Conference to its grand swansong at Osaka Expo 1970, and examines the works of Kenzo Tange, Kisho Kurokawa, Fumihiko Maki, Kiyonori Kikutake, and Arata Isozaki, among other Japanese architect-urbanists who have profoundly influenced contemporary architecture and urbanism in the world.

This book project has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts, Social Science Research Council, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, and UNC Charlotte among other prestigious organizations.