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Globalization In Tokyo

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World city
World city is a city that is not just a city that has a big contribute to their own country but that is a node the rest of the world. World city is a significant node of production of specialised financial service that help a global economy run (Renn, 2012). How does a city become a world city? According to Barbara Speed she said in the city metric that for a city to become a world city they need “connectedness” with other words to be connected with the world on a global scale she also wrote that you need “good transport routes to tie you in the world economy: an international airport, have your own docks. Have highly international jobs mainly in finance and media industry the presence of government and cultural centres …show more content…

Before Tokyo was Tokyo it was known as Edo in the mid-1600 (Okata & Murayama, 2010). In the mid 1920 Tokyo’s urban fringe grew past the urban fringe of Edo (Okata & Murayama, 2010). High concentration of industrial areas in the peripheral areas of Tokyo that caused conflict with the local residents (Okata & Murayama, 2010). Tokyo’s national government needed to introduce a kind of subdivision control system or development control system that can prevent un-planned development and make use of a zoning system that help toe control pollution that can be caused (Okata & Murayama, 2010). This development was based on 1919 City Planning Act this act look similar to New York’s zoning act and germanise district development act (Okata & Murayama, 2010). This act was did not work well in the planning of small scale sub-division or plot-by-plot development because of low infrastructure at the time (Okata & Murayama, 2010), because unlike German any road wider than 2.7 m was automatically designated as building lines that caused that buildings were built on the roads edge (Okata & Murayama, 2010). Until 1950 the housing development in Tokyo was single family housings for the emerging middle class citizens (Okata & Murayama, 2010). Thus weak sub-urbanization started under weak conditions in the 1919 City Planning Act. In 1930 Tokyo’s reginal greenbelt development was established the lands was bought by the local government, but the most vital parts of the land was sold than to farmers with the purpose of the land reform initiative after the war (Okata & Murayama, 2010). Secondly a Green belt zoning coverage under 10% was placed around the urban area of Tokyo (Okata & Murayama, 2010) this was part of the restoration process that was caused by the First World War. But

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