politics an' bullshit

This weekend the election for the new tokyo major is coming up. now, i don't want to bore anyone, although researching on amakudari is highly recommended from my point of view.
but the thing that excites me about this particular election is the guy number 6: kisho kurokawa, a fellow architect (if i may be as blatant as to put my name next to his)!
i am not only excited because architects in politics have always been mean-ass (germania, anyone?), but also about kurokawas (long gone) ideas of urbanity. those could thoeretically pop up during a city council meeting or something. (well, let's just forget for a minute about what his office is building nowadays in china and alike...). like, if he was still in his hot phase: the 1960's and 1970's.
picture this! city council member: mr. mayor, how should we solve the problem of the shortage of living space in tokyo? kurokawa: well, let's just transform the city into a giant double helix!
seriously, he was one of the heroes of my university days.
check out the nakagin capsule tower. one of the few buildings that the metabolist movement (Kurokawas brainchild) produced in real life.
sadly it din't work out and nowadays only an empty shell remains.