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Wide of Gateway to Kiyomizu Temple2. Street in Gion district of Kyoto3. Maple leaves above the Shirogawa River in the Gion district 4. Tea houses on left bank of Shirogawa River 5. South Gate of Ken Ninji Temple6. Wide of Ken Ninji...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide of Gateway to Kiyomizu Temple\u003cbr/\u003e2. Street in Gion district of Kyoto\u003cbr/\u003e3. Maple leaves above the Shirogawa River in the Gion district \u003cbr/\u003e4. Tea houses on left bank of Shirogawa River \u003cbr/\u003e5. South Gate of Ken Ninji Temple\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of Ken Ninji Temple main Building\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide exterior of Central Kyoto \u003cbr/\u003e8. Alex Kerr working at Iori offices \u003cbr/\u003e9. Alex Kerr working at Iori offices  \u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alex Kerr, Writer and Founder of Iori: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Because the Japanese and the world sees a lot of photographs of beautiful temples, people aren't aware that the city of Kyoto has been drastically altered in the last few decades, and the worst of the damage has been in the last five or six years.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of Machiya exterior\u003cbr/\u003e12. Machiya exterior\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alex Kerr, Writer and Founder of Iori: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Machiya are town houses and Kyoto Machiya are very distinctive. For one thing there was a style of, for example, of creating exteriors with slatted wooden doors and windows.  And it was actually very clever because it allowed that from inside you can look out but from outside you can't look in. It also allowed the air through.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of Machiya exterior \u003cbr/\u003e15. Close of slatted upper floor windows\u003cbr/\u003e16. Windows viewed from inside Machiya \u003cbr/\u003e17.  SOUNDBITE: (English) Alex Kerr, Writer and Founder of Iori: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Machiya had many other characteristics.  They had small internal gardens that they called Tsuboniwa. Gardens in a bottle.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide of Tsuboniwa (Internal Garden.)\u003cbr/\u003e19.SOUNDBITE: (English) Alex Kerr, Writer and Founder of Iori: \u003cbr/\u003e\"It allowed people that while even living in the city to have a certain kind of privacy and yet enjoy nature.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Tsuboniwa.\u003cbr/\u003e21. Shot of the maple tree in garden in back of Machiya.\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alex Kerr, Writer and Founder of Iori: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Machiya incorporate the use of bamboo, lacquer,  many different kinds of wood, tatami, plaster, metal ware, metal fittings, paper sliding doors, its almost endless, it's a kind of a study in the use of materials.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. Sliding doors on upper level of Machiya \u003cbr/\u003e24. Ground floor living room of Machiya\u003cbr/\u003e25. Tokunoma alcove.\u003cbr/\u003e26. Close of metal fitting.\u003cbr/\u003e27. Upper room of Machiya.\u003cbr/\u003e28. Bedroom in Machiya\u003cbr/\u003e29. Characteristic high ceiling with exposed beams above kitchen area in Machiya\u003cbr/\u003e30. Wardrobes in Machiya \u003cbr/\u003e31. Close of decorative bamboo detail \u003cbr/\u003e32. Wide of modern apartment buildings in central Kyoto\u003cbr/\u003e33. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alex Kerr, Writer and founder of Iori:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Of course you could always argue that we should fill in the canals of Venice because it would be a lot more convenient to get around.  You could also argue as Le Corbusier  (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, widely known as Le Corbusier, October 6 1887 - August 27 1965, a Swiss architect famous for his contributions to what is now called modernism) did that the entire ancient centre of Paris should be demolished to build big concrete apartment blocks.  But the fact is Venice, Paris, Kyoto, these are absolutely irreplaceable treasures of the world.  This is why America did not bomb Kyoto at the end of the war because Secretary of War Stimpson argued to President Truman that Kyoto is more than just for the Japanese, it's a treasure of mankind. I believe that's true.\"\u003cbr/\u003e34.  Modern apartment building in central Kyoto\u003cbr/\u003e35. Modern apartment building in central Kyoto\u003cbr/\u003e36. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alex Kerr, Writer and Founder of Iori: \u003cbr/\u003e\"There is always a question about how while you are protecting historic city centres, how you can also build outlying satellite towns with the big apartment buildings that will house growing populations and that's a matter of zoning. And that's something that Kyoto did not do. So it's always a matter of balance, the zoning, figure out what's really important to be saved and what you could then, what you could also develop in and which ways. None of these questions were ever asked in the helter skelter development that we've seen here.\"\u003cbr/\u003e37. Machiya in central Kyoto\u003cbr/\u003e38. Close of Machiya window.\u003cbr/\u003e39. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alex Kerr, Writer and Founder of Iori: \u003cbr/\u003e\" There's an old Japanese story about a man who goes into the mountains to study folklore. And the tale is that if the bell isn't rung every night then the dragon will rise out of the pond and wipe out the village. And he falls in love with the bell ringer's daughter and one day the bell ringer dies and he has this question when evening comes should he ring the bell? And he thinks 'oh well why not?'  and he does. Then the next night comes and  he rings it again and after a year or so goes by he suddenly realises that he's become the bell ringer and he can't stop. And so here I am and I can't stop.\"\u003cbr/\u003e40. Wide of city centre viewed from mountain to the east of the city .\u003cbr/\u003eThe Japanese city of Kyoto traditionally conjures up images of a beautifully preserved historic city. \u003cbr/\u003eBut the face of modern day Kyoto is rapidly changing to accommodate a growing population. \u003cbr/\u003eFrom a certain point of view the Japanese city of Kyoto looks steeped in history and tradition, with immaculately preserved temples and old traditional style houses.  \u003cbr/\u003eFrom another wider perspective Kyoto is starting to look like a bland modern concrete city not unlike most big cities around the world. \u003cbr/\u003eAuthor Alex Kerr has lived in the city for over thirty years and has witnessed the change in Koyoto firsthand.\u003cbr/\u003eKerr says that because the Japanese and the world see a lot of photographs of beautiful temples and small traditional houses, people are unaware that the city of Kyoto has been drastically altered over the past few decades. \u003cbr/\u003eKerr says that the worst of the damage has been over the last five or six years.\u003cbr/\u003eKyoto's traditional town houses, known as Machiya, have suffered the worst fate under the new housing developments. \u003cbr/\u003eThousands of Machiya have been destroyed within a few decades to make way for large apartment buildings.   \u003cbr/\u003eKerr has been at the forefront of a campaign to stop this trend. \u003cbr/\u003eAlong with a group of associates, Kerr founded Iori, a company which acquires old Machiya, restores them, and rents them to visitors to Kyoto.  \u003cbr/\u003eKerr explains that Kyoto Machiya in particular have many distinctive characteristics, such as the old style of creating exteriors with slatted wooden doors and windows, a particularly clever feature as it allows air through and means that people from inside can look out without allowing those on the outside to look into the Machiya.  \u003cbr/\u003eKoyoto Machiya also have small internal gardens 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