Abstract
The writer tried to study the characteristics of the satellite cities from the view point of the 'development of a city, and gave any example to Matsudo city in Chiba prefecture.
Matsudo has developed as a ferry-town, station-town and a port-town on the river of Edo, and then became the commercial and political center of its vicinity. By the expansion of Tokyo, Matsudo came to be joined with the residential districts, and turned into a satellite city of Tokyo.
In accordance with the change of the city functions, Matsudo had several different forms as follows.
City Functions City Forms
1st period station-town in a line along the road.
2nd period local center town occupying the low-land between
Edo river and the railway.
3rd period satellite city extending to the east of the
railway.
