Landscape Policy and Archaic Designs of Historic Tourist City (original) (raw)

Analysis of Facade Design of Historic Townscape

Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan, 2016

This paper aims to analyze façade design of historic townscape of Mihonoseki, located northeast to Matsue, focusing "Engawa" and "Maedoma" attached to rooms along streets are commonly seen and form characteristic façade of town houses. We surveyed the distribution of them and reevaluated their role in townscape. In result, we chalked out tendency of façade similarity in the reformation and reconstruction of traditional houses and points to be considered in the townscape guild lines.

Analysis of Facade Design of Historic Townscape:Focusing on "Engawa" and "Maedoma" in Mihonoseki, Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture

Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan, 2016

This paper aims to analyze façade design of historic townscape of Mihonoseki, located northeast to Matsue, focusing "Engawa" and "Maedoma" attached to rooms along streets are commonly seen and form characteristic façade of town houses. We surveyed the distribution of them and reevaluated their role in townscape. In result, we chalked out tendency of façade similarity in the reformation and reconstruction of traditional houses and points to be considered in the townscape guild lines.

The history of natural conservation related to tourism development in the Republic of Palau

Journal of The Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture, 2015

The purpose of this research is to identify the history of natural conservation related to tourism development in the Republic of Palau through literature review and interview survey and to investigate the effectiveness of the current natural conservation polices at two case study sites. The results show that the primitive natural conservation had focused on sustainable use of natural resources by local communities, and it has then turned into wildlife conservation because of the many environmental issues, for example, the severe coral bleaching event, the soil erosion problem caused by new developments, and the environmental degradation by tourist activities. Currently, the unique natural conservation policies are in effect such as Protected Area Network, Micronesia Challenge Endowment Fund, and Green Fee. The national government carries out those policies by means of attracting tourists, who pay the Green Fee, and gathering attention from international society, which donates Micronesia Challenge Endowment Fund. The national government distributes those funds to local communities, which manage their natural resources sustainably as the Protected Area Network sites. The funds are used not only for the conservation objective itself, but also for the purpose of the small community developments such as starting nature tourism projects. The result of this study would be useful for discussing the direction of nature tourism development in Japan.

Study on Landscape Properties of Cement and Lime Industrial Cities

Journal of The Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture, 2016

Limestones have been playing important roles in offering fundamental materials for construction of public infrastructure. There are many limestone quarries in Japan and they formed the cement industrial cities around them with conspicuous industrial landmarks. Cement industries brought wealth to the city and advanced infrastructures, such as high-graded trunk roads or rich architectures. In addition, huge cement works form characteristic technoscape (industrial landscape) which is cherished by local people as their home landscape. This study manifests the landscape properties of cement and limestone industrial cities, by observing 37 cities in Japan, with in-situ survey of the landscape, bibliographic and folklore survey of lime-originated folk customs, festivals or local songs. The findings of this study are, (1) Prominent technoscape of cement is formed in process of cement production, lime transportation and lime quarry, (2) Landscape of limestone-originated nature, such as karst valley, limestone cave, or karst polje (large elliptical depression) is formed nearby, and (3) Lime-originated natural landscape formed by easy erosion of limestone took on sublime appearance, generated animism, and it has been existing with deformation or relocation by companies after industrialization.

An Archaeological Review of the West Asian Urbanization ─ Comparison and Investigation of the Privious Studies ─

2013

Many discussions about urbanization in the ancient world have been heavily derived from ‘ The Urban Revolution’ of V. Gordon Childe in 1950. Proposing ten criteria deducing from archaeological data, he distinguished the earliest cities form any older or contemporary villages, and thought irrigation cultivation in the valleys of the TigrisEuphrates and others had begun to yield a social surplus. Concerning the urbanization in West Asia, thereafter, archaeologists and anthropologists became to sustain and develop the Childe’s scenario that plenty of food surplus accumulated by the growth of economic subsistence through the irrigational agriculture in the southern Mesopotamia might have triggered the emergence of social surplus and differentiation which are invariably observed in urbanized society. Most of the scholars have held a general view on the Mesopotamian urbanization that the ancient culture or society evolved in the Uruk period through 4th millennium B.C.E., and then the earl...

Study on Landscape-Enhancements by the Systems of Local Governments Which Execute Landscape-Enhancements and Preservation

Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ), 2014

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the present situation of landscape-enhancements in Arimatsu district which executed authentic preservation and landscape-enhancements by the own system of Nagoya-city. The points of this analysis are the following three points. 1) To present the pattern of landscape-enhancements by classifying the exterior designs, and analyze the relationship between the utilization subsidies, the landscape-enhancement standards, and the designs of traditional buildings. 2) To clarify the characteristics of the cases utilizing subsidies by analyzing the each part of the exterior designs in detail. 3) To grasp the locational trends of landscape-enhancements in the preservation district.