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TOKYO / RESILIENCE UNFOLDED The Tokyo Condition; A Recurring Process of Destruction and Reconstruction Research on cities and disasters is still perceived as a basic dichotomy. It belongs historically to different and distinct research traditions, and often is organized on different founding assumptions in pursuit of different objectives. Cities are confronted with disruptive events, and the relationship between disasters and cities are an interesting object of study as cities attract people and become more populous, and disasters seem to occur more frequently by its changing nature. The connection between these two subjects namely, city and disruptions, are covered by the concept of resilience that currently has become a dominant surge. Multiple questions emerge spontaneously regarding this theme concerned. As cities have been destroyed throughout history, what can be learned by historical cases of destruction and reconstruction. The research is an attempt to position itself regarding the ongoing discourses on resilience, in tackling and in operating with both the shock and the city through resilience-thinking. It explores and gives insight into the definitions and interpretations in order to position resilience as a frame of theory within this dissertation. And what is mostly presented today as a non-historical and non-contextual matter, resilience is put into perspective of Tokyo. Tokyo is a paradox-thick megalopolis today, it has absorbed several shocks, underwent traumas, periods of decline and growth in time and space, in stages and paces. The research emphasizes on moments of shock as a case-study, and not the stresses, nor the interference with stresses. The shifts in attitude on how the city reacted and responded to these shocks, and the methods on how it redeveloped itself spatially is to be considered; as a return to previous conditions or embracing the shock as an unique momentum of transformation. The observation of Tokyo, and the conclusions of the workshop on resilience have directly lead to result in the main emphasis of the research that if shocks are not secluded events, but rather catalysts that influence spatial development. On how resilience-thinking, as a possible frame of theory, that is based on the notion of disequilibrium, could contribute to comprehend shifts in the attitude and the method of spatial development; post-shock and pre-shock. In reviewing action/reaction in the contiguous sequence of extreme Tokyo shocks in regard to its development spatially, it can be argued that shocks, in general and the threat to shocks, creates the possibility of initiating a long-term spatial process. In order to identify this process, resilience as a concept, a comprehensive frame of theory is presented. Subsequently, the gaze of resilience-thinking indicates shifts in the attitude of spatial organisation that can be considered twofold; from a reactive/post-shock recovery by building capacity as response on an organisational level, toward a proactive, pre-shock preparedness by the ability of absorbing shocks spatially through a particular Tokyo typo-morphology; a prototype. The acceptance of impermanence in aforesaid attitudes are fundamentally rooted in the Japanese culture; the permanent transience.