Speaking from his medical background in homeopathy, Kroll views everything as much as possible in terms of whole systems. "The social body as living entity provides the minimum necessary of its own recuperative powers to self-regulate its own functioning. Yet ever since the Renaissance, city planning has taken the exact opposite course. Originally, urban society was influenced with collectivity, instincts and an unconscious intelligence. Came the Renaissance, however, and the newly emerged specialists made artificial cities through technological and mechanical labors. They suppressed all natural spontaneous development.

Positing "écologie paysagère," replete with change and contradiction, as the homeopathic corrective, steady-state model of the city instead of the "écologie politique," Kroll believes Tokyo represents a living, open example, of a metropolis self-imaged through "participatory systems" deeply engrained in the society. "This is nothing innovative, but is merely indicative of a distrust of autocratic stratagems and abstract geometric. Given over to the natural course of things, the present richness of Tokyo's urban spaces will fully structure itself in ever richer ways."

Référence (English) : CAPRON Jean-Luc, " Participating in the Urban Landscape " (interview with Lucien Kroll - English summary), Telescope, the Printed City, Workshop for Architecture and Urbanism, Tokyo, 88.09, pp. 28-29

Référence (Japanese) : CAPRON Jean-Luc, "Toshifûkei e no sanka" [De la participation au paysage urbain] (interview de Lucien Kroll), Teresucôpu, Kenchiku-toshi wôkushoppu, Tôkyô, 88.09, pp. 28-29.