Concrete Monument in Chuo City, Tokyo

Barrels XXVII meeting report: Barrels in the monument city.

The 27th annual Barrels meeting highlighted the latest advances in this rapidly growing field. The Barrels meeting annually focuses on the role of the posterior medial thalamus in somatosensation, dendritic processing, and the cortical dynamics involved during touch perception. Speakers utilized diverse molecular, physiological, computational techniques to understand the development, sensory pr...

Seasonal variations of daily mortality in Tokyo City.

Daily deaths of all causes in Tokyo residents from 1966 to 1972 were analyzed with relation to environmental conditions. As the analytical methods, daily deviation from 15-day moving average, simple correlation coefficients and stepwise regression procedure between daily deaths and environmental variables were employed. Seasonal variations of daily deaths, high in winter low in summer, and sign...

Visualizing the Landscape of Old-time Tokyo (edo City)

Historical maps are precious materials, which show various spatial distribution of land use, streets and so on of the historical importance at the time the maps were produced. They may be a dependable source of information regarding concepts of city planning of the past. In analysis of historical maps, the most practical method is to compare them with the present ones, for instance, by overlayi...

An Analysis on Formal Typology of Metropolitan Contemporary Housing of Tokyo (by Emphasis on 50 Residential Houses in the City of Tokyo)

Monument to the discoveries.

A week ago I was standing with my wife by the River Tagus in Lisbon, next to the Monument to the Discoveries. The monument is at the spot where Vasco da Gama set out to discover the southeast passage from Europe to Asia, past the Cape of Good Hope. Vasco’s discovery marked the beginning of the Portuguese maritime empire. At the furthest tip of Europe, Portugal was perfectly situated to found su...