A Study of Urban Morphology of Japanese Colonial Towns in Nan'yo Gunto: Part1 Garapan, Tinian and Chalan Kanoa in Northern Marianas

Ono, Keiko; Lea, John P.; Ando, Tetsuya (2002). "A Study of Urban Morphology of Japanese Colonial Towns in Nan'yo Gunto: Part1 Garapan, Tinian and Chalan Kanoa in Northern Marianas". Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ). 67 (556): 333–339. doi:10.3130/aija.67.333_2. ISSN 1340-4210.

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Abstract: The impacts on urbanisation in the Pacific from the short-lived Japanese occupation of most of Micronesia in the first half of the twentieth century was substantial. Over a period of three decades island economies were transformed and, in the case of the Northern Marianas, small islander populations resettled in modern towns together with many thousands of Japanese migrants. Racial segregation was not enforced as such and economic and social distinctions stratified the urban populations. New maps derived from wartime aerial photography have been drawn-up for Garapan and Chalan Kanoa on Saipan and for Tinian Town, and are reported here together with some reminiscences of repatriated former residents. Boundaries of different land use activities are revealed here for the first time. Some conclusions are reached about the land use pattern of Japanese colonial towns and their key components.

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