The Planning For The Future Structure Of Tokyo Case Study

The planning for the future structure of postwar Tokyo was the core of Japanese economic and political power which began in 1956 after the establishment of the National Capital Region Development Law. A committee was set up to study a strategy to control development of the whole Kanto Region up to a radius of 100 km. The committee prepared the National Capital Region Development Plan, which was approved in 1958. The goal of the plan was to prevent the urban territory of the capital and any further concentration of industrial plants and residential settlements by means of a policy of decentralization, with the aim of containing the problem of traffic congestion.

Inside the regional territory three main areas were identified, according to the
Later on the method introduced by Le Corbusier, their design process conceived different scales of intervention, from the house to the whole city, and also gave high importance to visual factors, in polemical contrast to the traditional city planning methods that in Japan were entrusted to the competence of bureaucrats and
But the same concept was once again considered in the preparations for the post-war reconstruction of Tokyo in 1946, known as the "Ishikawa Plan", which considered the use of a greenbelt which spread deep into the urban area and also planned to contain a population of under 3.5 million. The First Plan proposed in 1958 was never implemented. The continuous growth of population and industrial development suggested reclamation of the waterfront in the port of Tokyo. The reclaimed lands along the foreshore of Tokyo became a central issue in the government's economic policy, and hence fostered the need for the implementation of city planning in the new developing areas. The president of the Japan Housing Corporation, Kuro Kano proposed land filling on the east side of Tokyo Bay for creating residential and industrial areas in April 1958.
In 1958 and 1959, alternative projects were proposed by Metabolists Masato Otaka, Kiyonori Kikutake and Noriaki "Kisho" Kurokawa, who took the opportunity represented by the World Design Conference in Tokyo, to present their urban ideas. The news that the capital city of Tokyo had been chosen to host the 1964 Olympic Games had an important effect on the architectural research activities for the reorganization of Tokyo in