the city as light and as built structure

Tokyo from space. Image courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. Image id ISS016-E-27586. North is not up. 

A tale of two cities. One of house and on of buildings. The Chuo-line is the most visible railway line. Some rivers, the dense belt of houses in areas developed during the years of extreme growth in the 1950, the shapes of the valleys to the west. North is up.