Why is Tokyo the world's largest urban area? (38 million people!)

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Resources:

A. Sorensen, A. (2005). The making of urban Japan: cities and planning from Edo to the twenty first century. Routledge.
(Most of the information in this video comes from this book)

B. Morita, T., Nakagawa, Y., Morimoto, A., Maruyama, M., & Hosokawa, Y. (2012). Changes and Issues in Green Space Planning in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area: Focusing on the Capital Region Plan. International Journal of Geomate, 2(1), 191-196.

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