New ideas and strategies are looking at streets. Architect Chiba Manabu rediscovers the charm of Tokyo's city streets and explores new designs for transport infrastructure and urban living.

A research institute has released a 3-D geological map showing the underground structure of Tokyo's 23 wards designed to help residents think about weak areas and better prepare for earthquakes.

Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward has reproduced a rare map from 1947 that shows how the postwar U.S. occupation of Japan had dominated and sprawled across the places locals walk past every day. It proved to ...