도쿄의 철도기반 도시확장 특성에 관한 고찰

초록

This study examines the interdependence between Tokyo’s urban expansion and its railway system, focusing on ‘how the railway has shaped urban growth,’ and draws a set of urban design lessons for urban growth management. It understands Tokyo’s expansion as a phased transformation guided by the railway: the ‘separation of home and work’ in the 1920s from the mixed-use Edo; the ‘further separation of home from work’ towards suburbs in the 1960s; and ‘home proximity to work’ from the 1990s onwards leading to a multiple-nuclei city. It found that: (1) Tokyo’s railways replaced land routes and canals, opening around land-canal hubs influenced by local geography; (2) the hub stations filled with non-railway businesses of private railways that have developed new residential communities along the suburban lines connected to the city center; (3) the freight yards were redeveloped into multiple sub-centers under the metropolitan decentralization policy. The findings suggest Tokyo’s expansion has been significantly driven by the railways, and the redevelopments of the freight yards by public-private partnerships presents the challenges for building sub-centers in the metropolitan setting.

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