urban analyses

1997



selected parts of tokyo
city aspects (Shimbashi)
city aspects (Hinode)
city collaborators
urban analyses 1
urban analyses 2



analyses done by Sota Ichikawa: Urban profile Fish Market
(all layers)

single layers:

information layer

human flow layer

traffic layer

layer singularities

see an other analyse (UP Park):



Flow Layers: human
human qualities: movements of peoples (shoppers, salesmen, old/young people, frequencies)

information
information qualities: information flows of tv-screens, advertising walls, newspaper boxes, network cable structures,meeting points for people with cellular phones

economical
economic qualities: speculation flows of real estate, money flow: prosperity how often companies,shops or inhabitants change offices, appartements etc.

traffic
traffic qualities: road structures, flows of railways, subways, buses, cars, boats

architectural
architectural qualities: building structures and their city presence (scales, rhythms, breaks, construction sites)