November 05, 2004
A complex city
The Tokyo Bay Area is not one huge city but four bigger cities steady growing together. It’s Yokohama, Tokyo, Chiba and Saitama. Of course you can divide these cities into even smaller cities, usually surrounding a metro or train station, but let’s just stay here this time.
It’s a very diverse city where old and new buildings climb on each other. There are clear contrasts, a tiny old wooden temple can be found next to a brand new and very tall office building. The city has a very complex net of highways, roads and rails crossing each other in different layers and stretches out in both horizontal and vertical directions. These constructions are very impressing; but how does it all fit together so well?
