Toyota opens doors to $10B ‘City of the Future’ — and they’re recruiting residents "The automotive manufacturer has unveiled its highly anticipated $10 billion “Woven City,” a futuristic, eco-friendly community in Shizuoka, Japan, where innovation will take center stage — and they’re looking for participants to help test tomorrow’s tech." “Woven City is more than just a place to live, work and play,” Toyoda said during the presentation. “[It’s] a place where people can invent and develop all kinds of new products and ideas.” The first phase of the project is set to launch this fall, with around 100 initial residents — primarily Toyota employees and their families — moving in. Over time, the population will expand to include outside inventors and entrepreneurs, with up to 2,000 people expected to live there as the project progresses." "Startups, external businesses and individual entrepreneurs will work alongside Toyota’s own experts, leveraging the automaker’s decades of manufacturing know-how and Woven by Toyota’s software expertise to create solutions for some of society’s biggest challenges." The referenced article also includes pictures
It's very odd that in such a crowded country like Japan that doesn't have any room to build a new city for 2000 people that they could somehow magically find room for that? Suspect this isn't anything more than a hybrid office-factory with housing for a limited number of family members. And treating a cluster of buildings in a city in Japan like a city unto itself kinda sounds like a creepy cult if you ask me.
While that's true, those low density areas don't have cities built because the geography is not conducive to large scale human habitation. It's much different in countries that have been genocided and colonized, because there's room to grow, but the islands of Japan are severely limited when it comes to that.
msn yuck Toyota Woven City | Top Have been following off and on for a year or two. What to see more from the other side of the pond. The presentation took place at Viva Tech several months ago.
I just went through your link and it seems like pure fantasy with no real physical location or actual lot that they're building the property on. Have they ever described the actual landscape that they're building on? Like what it's relationship is to city its being built in and what the natural features of the overall landscape is? It makes no sense... It's so vague?
The city is almost ready ( end of 2025 ) for permanent residents to move in and visiting residents to work on there own projects. The location is at the base of Mt Fugi on the site of one of Toyotas' previous Factories. Listen at timestamp 3:00 for more on the citys' location that was announced at CES 2020.
No Toyota says Woven City innovation incubator is ready for residents "Overall, the goal of the project is to drive innovation and shape a better tomorrow. That’s an abstract goal, but Toyoda said the $10 billion project, which is on 175 acres to start, is part of the corporation’s responsibility as a global citizen." Hajime Kumabe, CEO of Woven by Toyota, explained. “Mobility goes beyond physical movement,” he said. “It also has an emotional component.” Roughly interpreted, it means the city will be a means of testing ways that could improve the quality of life beyond the world of vehicles. One overarching hope among the executives is that WBT eventually becomes a sort of tugboat, pulling along the much larger Toyota Motor Corporation to an innovative future." Toyota Enters the Space Game With $44 Million Rocket Investment "Woven by Toyota, a subsidiary of the company, is investing around $44.4 million (7 billion yen) in Japanese space startup Interstellar Technologies as a means of entering into the booming space industry, Interstellar announced this week." The Lunar Cruiser Is Toyota's Very Real Land Cruiser for the Moon
Projects | Commercial Office Design Projects & Ideas "Ford Land and our team of real estate experts have been innovating Ford Motor Co.’s global portfolio since 1970. Ford Land is on a journey to modernize and transform the workplace and the workplace experience. Our spaces speed innovation and production, prioritize wellness, drive human connection and empower employees to do their best work." Ford Reveals Plans for Inclusive, Vibrant, Walkable Mobility Innovation District Around Michigan Central Station | Ford Media Center "Along with a first-of-its-kind mobility testing platform and new open spaces, site plan prioritizes the needs of the community with sustainable amenities; recommends abundant green space, biking trails, cafés, shuttles, scooters, retailers, grocery stores, day care, housing and parking all within a 20-minute walk" Look to the past, and there is Fordlandia in South America.
If ever been on the Ambassador Bridge from Windsor to Downtowm, just a few miles upstream of the Rouge super plant one might notice the new color of the water as compared to what it used to look like. Last time I crossed the bridge (circa mid 90s ) the color was this sort of (glowing iridescent light blue, (( sorta )) like the color of the water on a warm sunny day in Honalulu. Umm hummm. The Rouge ran threw Ed Hines Park which was a mile or two from where I lived in Plymouth (circa late 70s)
