The morphological transformation of Japanese castle-town cities

Urban Morphology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-18

  Satoh, Shigeru ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Castle town; Japan; Radial pattern; Urban transformation; Warped grid

Indexed keywords

CASTLE TOWNS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGE; RADIAL PATTERN; URBAN MORPHOLOGY; URBAN PLANNING;

JAPAN;

EID: 0031428394     PISSN: 10274278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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