Historical Analysis of Tokyo Urban Planning and It's institutions

Abstract

This paper is a Historical analysis of Tokyo urban plannig and it's institutions. Tokyo has about 400 years history from Edo period. But modern Tokyo began from Meiji period about 130 years ago. This paper is a study of this modern Tokyo urban planning, especially the historical transition of Road Planning, Land Use Planning and It's institutions, and also the continuousness and the non-continuousness of this historical urban planning.