the tokyo files: urban design 東京の都市デザイン

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(32) Community bulletin boards 町内会用屋外掲示板

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Tabata Ginza shopping district 「田端銀座商店街」

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(31) Arakawa Floodway 荒川放水路

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(30) Glory arches 栄光のアーチ! Welcome to the shotengai!

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Ryōgoku Bridge & the Sumida River

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Unexpected beauty: 1940’s Worker’s Quarters (Warabi, Saitama)

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(28) Future Tokyo: the new Miyashita Park, Shibuya 宮下公園

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(27) River embankments and floodplains 堤防と氾濫原

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(26) Disaster Prevention Parks 防災公園 (bosai koen)

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Splashing around Tokyo’s water infrastructure

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Ofuna Garden City: “New Kamakura” and the “Hollywood of the East” 大船田園都市と「東洋のハリウッド」

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Future Tokyo: Shinagawa Station Redevelopment

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(25) Traffic calming in Tokyo 交通静穏化

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(24) Tokyo’s micro-parks 東京小緑地 / 東京の小さな公園

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(23) Street fire extinguishers 街頭消火器

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(22) Coin lockers コインロッカー

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(19) Mejiro Cultural Village (Mejiro Bunkamura) 目白文化村 (1922)

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(21) Public toilets in Tokyo and Japan

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(20) Smoking areas in Tokyo 喫煙所

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(18) Saitama Sky Forest and Keyaki Hiroba Plaza けやきひろばプラザ

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(17) Yoshiwara: traditional red-light district

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(16) Suburban Tokyo: Tokiwadai Housing Estates 常盤台住宅地 (~1935)

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(15) Outdoor closets

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(14) Impact of former train tracks on a Tokyo neighborhood

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(13) Street gardening 路上園芸 ‘rojo engei’

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(12) Tokyo parks and cemeteries

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(11) Narrow streets with people walking in the road

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(10) Fences and walls built around trees

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(9) Slopes 坂 (zaka)

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(8) Fumikiri 踏切: Japanese railroad crossings

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(7) Daishindo 大深度地下 (deep underground) land-use law

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(6) Provisional spaces in Tokyo

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(5) Gated communities in Tokyo and Japan 日本のゲーテッドコミュニティ

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(4) Denenchofu: Japan’s first “garden city” 田園調布の歴史 (1918-1928)

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(3) Koban 交番: police boxes

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(2) Narrow buildings next to former rivers

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(1) Nishhoken: Japanese sunshine rights / sunlight laws 日照権

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