Kyoto is being changed by the redevelopment of the cities accompanied by the economic growth of the 1960s and 1970s. The long, narrow <i>machiya</i> lots are being bundled together into carpets on which giant boxes are placed. In the process, the shape of the city is changing from its former, traditional Japanese style to that of an ordinary modern city. But there is also a movement to hold onto the strip style. The <i>machiya</i> are remodeled into buildings of three to six stories and the cereal box building makes its appearance. As a result, Kyoto is being transformed into a strange townscape in which three stylesmgiant box architecture, cereal box architecture, and countless traditional <i>machiya</i> that no one knows what to do withmare mixed. There has been a new change in the 1980s. An architectural style we might call post modern has intruded into the redevelopment of strip architecture. The new construction might be compared to pieces of cake of various shapes. Cereal box architecture utilizes the total volume allowed by law, but cake architecture may not; rather, it focuses on shape and color in space. Because of this change, parts of the city are coming to look like a bakery shop window. Characterizes the town of Kyoto as one in which post-modern cake architecture takes its place alongside giant box architecture, cereal box architecture, and groups of <i>machiya</i>, the traditional town houses.