| Title |
A Study of Characteristics of Railway-based Urban Growth of Tokyo |
| Authors |
한광야(Han, GwangYa) ; 김민지(Kim, MinJi) ; 손강현(Son, Kanghyun) |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.38195/judik.2024.10.25.6.99 |
| Keywords |
도쿄; 도시철도; 철도거점역; 민; 관파트너쉽; TOD Tokyo; Urban Railway; Hub Station; Public and Private Partnership; TOD |
| Abstract |
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. |