ABSTRACT
This last chapter reassesses the historiography on Metabolism to include new scholarships on this subject as well as those reevaluating other postwar avant-garde movements of architecture. It calls for new studies moving away from the singular perspective of megastructure represented by Reyner Banham’s 1976 book and toward a pluralist point of view that recognizes the Metabolist urban utopias as an invaluable legacy for the contemporary society. Three urban paradigms emerging from the Metabolist movement, namely megastructure, group form, and ruins, still inform urban designs and developments of the current age and inspire reconsideration of contemporary urbanism after the COVID-19 pandemic.
