Japan

Looking at Kushiro city on google maps, found a rectangular section of water from the river. Wondered what it was doing there. It is called Kiba.

Blocks (Case studies in city form MIT course) are referred to as chome.

"land use and transportation are the same things described in different languages." I wrote previously that "the linear city, in all of its incarnations, is a demonstration of how the transportation system really is driving the built form and the land use concept. They are one and the same thing." Or, "how you get around determines what you build."

A city has three constituent elements according to William Westfall: “the political character of its citizens; their institutional arrangements; and the embodiment of their politics and institutions in architectural and urban form.”