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How the mindset of traditional Japanese society can guide our own efforts to lead a green lifestyle today. If we want to live sustainably, how should we feel about nature? About waste? About our forests and rivers? About food? Just Enough is a book of stories and sketches that give valuable insight into what it is like to live in a sustainable society by describing life in Japan some two hundred years ago, during the late Edo period, when cities and villages faced many of the same environmental challenges we do today and met them beautifully and inventively.
Small Spaces is about living comfortably and using space wisely,
and where better to find ideas on that subject than Japan, one of
the world's most urban and densely populated countries? Tokyo
resident Azby Brown, a distinguished architect and designer, has
assembled dozens of creative solutions to space and storage
problems, illustrating them with photographs and plans of actual
living environments in contemporary homes.
The Very Small Home is an inspiring new book that surveys the
creative design innovations of small houses in Japan. Eighteen
recently built and unusual houses, from ultramodern to Japanese
rustic, are presented in depth. Particular emphasis is given to
what the author calls the "big idea" for each house-the thing that
does the most to make the home feel more spacious than it actually
is. Big ideas include ingenious sources of natural light, well
thought-out loft spaces, snug but functional kitchens, unobtrusive
partitions, and unobstructed circulation paths.
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