A Study of the Transformation of Street-blocks in Tokyo: A Case Study in Shinjuku

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This study presents an analysis of forms of street-blocks in a selected case-study area in Shinjuku. It focuses on the changes of the geometrical properties of selected block formation during the development between 1886 and 1997. At first it illustrates the origins and arrangement of the area′s early urban pattern. Secondly, it shows how the selected block forms developed, and how the block pattern reached its present stage. The study deduces how the initial properties of the blocks influenced the manner of their transformation and present properties, and also how they adapted to emerging changes.