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CIP's vision of reclamation and development of Tokyo Bay. Source: Based on Sangyo Keikaku Kaigi, Tokyowan Niokutsuboumetate nitsuiteno Kankoku, 9, 24 (Figure 7) and 28-9.
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At the conclusion of the 1950s in Japan, plans to reclaim and develop Tokyo Bay were proposed by the Japan Housing Corporation's president and a private think tank on economic affairs. The vision was incompatible with dispersion, the basic direction of the state's policy, so it was quickly rejected, but its legacy lived on as the trans-Tokyo Bay hi...
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... Shortly after the Mainichi series, the Asahi newspaper introduced the CIP's recommendations regarding the reclamation of Tokyo Bay. Its subcommittee chaired by Kano was central to the preparation of the plan to reclaim 660 km 2 of Tokyo Bay. 14 The CIP's plan was as comprehensive as Kano's original plan, calling not only for the creation of industrial zones, but also for the deployment of residential zones with a capacity of 5.6 million people, airfields, international trade centres, government offices and recreational zones consisting of parks, zoos, golf courses, etc. (Figure 3) ...
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... Their efforts came to fruition in the form of mega-projects such as the Minato Mirai 21 urban centre and Tokyo Teleport Town in the 1980s. However, there have been persistent criticisms of the 1980s' projects' questionable market-oriented character and the fact that they were implemented with little regard for public response or demands (Pernice, 2007;Lin, 2007;Shiozaki and Malone, 1996;Seguchi and Malone, 1996;Hasegawa, 2023). Meanwhile, urbanisation proceeded at a rapid pace, and the need to dispose of garbage in Tokyo Bay led to plans for more landfill sites. ...
As part of their reconstruction of the city following Allied bombing during World War II, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government infilled medium to small inland waterways (namely, canals and moats constructed during the 17th century) and utilised the resultant terrestrial strips for new purposes. Wartime damage reconstruction was conducted as part of the official city planning of Tokyo. During the 1940s, various waterways in Tokyo were infilled primarily with debris resulting from wartime bombing and, thereby, these landfills presented a model for the disposal of debris from disasters. In Japan, 115 municipalities were designated as war-damaged cities by the government, whose reconstruction was conducted as official city planning. The article examines how common the disposal of wartime debris via the in-filling of inland waterways was. The in-filling of Tokyo’s inland waterways caused the loss of watery spaces that are nowadays regarded as cultural heritage assets with recreational potential. Studies have either criticised the infilling of waterways or else underscored opposition to the activity. How then was it possible for the authorities to decide on infilling and land reclamation as city planning? Was there any social support for this project? Relatedly, should the decision by the metropolitan government to infill inland waterways be regarded as inappropriate? This article considers these questions and evaluates the modification of such areas after WWII.
