Tokyo: Tanehisa Otabe

In Episode 7 of atmospheres, Dr. Shusterman speaks with Tanehisa Otabe, professor of aesthetics at Tokyo University, Japan about his home city of Tokyo. Their conversation examines the idea of urban atmosphere through such topics as the mega-city as a network of smaller worlds with distinctive architectural differences, the effects of Covid on urban atmosphere, and the atmospheric qualities of different languages, such as Japanese and German in contributing to the atmosphere of communication.