Characteristics of road network forms in historic districts of Japan

This study focused on the structure and the platform of the road space of historic districts. We analyzed the road networks of 16 historic districts in Japan from the perspectives of circularity, accessibility and indirection based on graph theory. By calculating and comparing the indexes of each ro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ze Liu, Shichen Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2015-12-01
Series:Frontiers of Architectural Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095263515000503