Japan: 'Edo Horizontal' Tetsuo Furuichi traces a few of the architectural and cultural consequences of the horizontal expansion of Edo (the former name of Tokyo) into an urban environment.Japan: 'Tokyo Horizontal' Noriyaki Tajima and Nobuyuki Nomura address the quality of urban space in Tokyo through a series of projects that consider the particular conditions - density, scale, hybridity, mobility, connectivity - operative in the city.