Land Use and the Geometry of Lots in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo

Abstract

As urban local governments resort to GIS/LIS to perform their administrative functions, more data are becoming available for micro-level empirical analysis of land use, land use change and their relationships with intrinsic attributes, including geometric ones, of the basic unit of land use-the lot. Examples of attributes are size, shape, compactness and width of adjacent roads. Data on lots in a section of the predominantly residential Setagaya ward of Tokyo is analyzed to investigate such relationships. ?? Also, the attributes of the blocks are investigated in relation to the land use of the lots.