Period when Streets and Blocks were formed in the center of Edo and Tokyo

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  • 江戸東京最都心部における道路と街区の形成年代に関する研究
  • 江戸東京最都心部における道路と街区の形成年代に関する研究--東京都中央区全域及び月島地区の街区の歴史性
  • エド トウキョウ サイトシンブ ニ オケル ドウロ ト ガイク ノ ケイセイ ネンダイ ニ カンスル ケンキュウ トウキョウト チュウオウク ゼンイキ オヨビ ツキシマ チク ノ ガイク ノ レキシセイ
  • 東京都中央区全域及び月島地区の街区の歴史性
  • Historic Characteristics of Blocks in Tokyo Chuo City and Tsukishima District

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The metropolitan Edo-Tokyo has rapidly developed and changed since Edo period. But the main cause of the change is construction of new buildings. So traces of city planning in Edo-Tokyo last 400 years remain on the city foundation. The purpose of this paper is to analyze historic characteristics of Chuo City, the center of Edo-Tokyo, founded on period when streets and blocks were forming. The reconstruction after 1923 Great Kanto earthquake influenced formation of blocks in Chuo City. But, this paper analyzed that streets and blocks remain the same in Nihonbashi, Ginza and Tsukishima since Edo and Meiji periods. By the additional analysis including private roads in Tsukishima district, while most "assumed-blocks" have changed, some "assumed-blocks" remain from Meiji period.

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