4) Targeted new urban structure (Loop Megalopolis)
The period of continuous economic growth is over, and it is essential the
multipolar city which has existed until now is transformed into a
multifunctional concentrated-type city that makes the most of being in the
Tokyo Metropolitan Area, which fulfills the functions of the nation's capital.
1) Area-wide cooperation (including businesses, housing, industry,
distribution, disaster prevention, and culture)
2) Environment-friendly (creation of city that promotes coexistence with an
environment formed by water and greenery)
3) Four structural elements (center core, Tokyo Bay waterfront urban axis,
urban axis linking core cities, water and greenery loop)
4) Creation of a loop urban axis (creation of loop urban axis that smoothes
the flow of people, goods, and information in the Tokyo Metropolitan
Area by linking the urban axis which connects core cities and the Tokyo
Bay waterfront urban axis)
5) Base allocation