TRANSFORMATION OF THE SPATIAL COMPOSITION OF THE CASTLE TOWNS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE EXPANSION OF THE STREET NETWORK

This study focuses on cities that developed based on castle towns, analyzes the transformation of the spatial configuration and compares several cities. The street networks of the castle town period and the present day were evaluated using multiple indices and analyzed based on the rate of change in each value. As a result, we were able to categorize the cities into five types, and quantitatively clarified the impact of the relationship between the castle town and the railroad station and new framework streets introduced in the process of modernization on the spatial configuration.