An increased awareness of health problems [1] and energy conservation [2] led to a 2.6-fold increase in bicycle ownership in Japan from 1970 to 2013. Consequently, illegally parked bicycles around railway stations have become an urban problem in Tokyo and other urban areas. In addition to the...
Machimura T (1992) The urban restructuring process in Tokyo in the 1980s: Transforming Tokyo into a world city. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 16:114-128Machimura, Takashi(1992).The Urban Restructuring Process in Tokyo in the 1980s: Transforming Tokyo into a World City. ...
The author argues that the best way to counteract such transportation problems as fuel consumption, air pollution, suburban sprawl and urban decay, is to r... R Cervero - 《Scientific American》 被引量: 11发表: 1995年 Robert Lowell's Monumental Vision: History, Form, and the Cultural Work ...
In Tokyo, single dwellers now make up for as much as 43 percent of households. As a result of intensive rates of urban renewal, this transformation is beginning to take its toll on the urban landscape. This paper considers social changes in Japan in terms of an increasing atomization of ...
EMERGING URBAN TRENDS IN TOKYO, JAPAN -- and why they matter: Urban planning insights from the Asia-Pacific region Planning QuarterlyLandingin, Marie Ysabel
Historical changes in planting area, yield improvements, and production of both paddy and upland rice (Oryza sativa L.) in Tokyo and the whole of Japan from 1877 to 2003 were reviewed. The area of rice in Tokyo was at its peak (17 000 ha) at the beginning of the 20th century but ...
Recently, countermeasures against the urban heat island effect have become increasingly important in Tokyo. Such countermeasures include reduction of anthropogenic heat release and enhancement of urban ventilation. Evaluations of urban ventilation require construction of a high-resolution computational fluid dyna...
The Urban Lightscape in the Shitamachi Area of the East and West Axis(Edo Atmosphere, Urban Lightscapes of the "Shitamachi" Area in Tokyo) We will walk through downtown of Tokyo (Fukagawa, Tsukishima, Tsukuda, Tsukiji, Shiodome), running east and west of "Toyosu", where the national ...
This paper considers problems in calculating the heat island magnitude of coastal cities. We examined the influence on heat island magnitude (1) when a rural observatory located in an inland area is compared with an urban observatory and (2) when an observatory in an atypical countryside setting...
Most large cities in the world have adopted some or many forms of urban railway transportation; they are a tried-and-tested way of efficiently and reliably taking passengers where they need to be. Trains in the Tokyo Metropolitan ...