Uploaded on 2017-02-12 by Helen Chen

In this image of Tokyo from the Mori Tower at Rappongi Hill, the electricity and transportation systems are visible. While they influence and shape urban form, the reverse is also visible. No roads or bright lights cut across the dark area in the middle of the picture, which is a very old park built there hundreds of years ago. Roads would have to bend around these historical areas. I think urban form and infrastructure systems should have an interdependent relationship where they influence each other, and one influences the planners and engineers to decision about the other. I'd like to learn how to quantify this level of influence (in both directions) because it would be interesting to see whether this balance has shifted over the years.