mapping the neighbourhood

To make the side effects of urban renewal more concrete, an analysis of a certain neighbourhood called the Meirin district, is made. The Meirin district is part of the historical area that suffered from urban renewal the past decade.

The following drawings demonstrate the built space in the neighbourhood. The built space is mainly dominated by high rise buildings or housing blocks. As described in the previous chapter, the Kyomachiya plays an important role in the common space in Kyoto, functioning as an extension of the street activity. The new developed housing blocks ignore this extension aspect by creating privatised structures. This affects the neighbourhood on a street level: Longer streets and less porosity make the streets less liveable and walkable. This also applies in the analysed neighbourhood.

fig 34. built spaces in the neighborhood high rise buildings

Kyomachiya’s

fig 35. public area in the neighborhood - nolli map Chapter 3: analysis of an urban area