Tokyo vintage GIS: zoning and land use

With two maps in tow, I look at Tokyo’s land use and zoning in the late 1950s. Zoning designations largely reflected then-current land uses, except for some visionary (and eventually never realized) ideas about greenbelts and decongestion. I have written on zoning in Tokyo on this blog before, when <a href="http://benbansal.me/?p=3703" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">discussing</a> a post on Tyler Cowen’s Marginal Revolution blog. To my mind, it painted some rather dubious connections between the current zoning regime and an alleged success of the Japanese housing market in delivering a healthy number of housing starts. <a href="https://medium.com/@ben_bansal/tokyo-vintage-gis-zoning-and-land-use-571ff95c1e30">Visit Now</a>