A Study on the Evaluation of Modernization Heritage as a Cultural Landscape

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K18219
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Architectural history/Design
• Research Institution: Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts (2018-2019); Kyushu University (2016-2017)
• Principal Investigator: Aso Miki 同志社女子大学, 生活科学部, 准教授 (00649733)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: 近代化遺産 / 文化的景観

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study attempted to evaluate the modernization heritage within a region using a cultural landscape framework. In the case of Hakozaki in Fukuoka City, the university facilities are an element of the area's historical multi-layeredness. However, it is difficult to evaluate as a cultural landscape with the facility at its core. On the other hand, in the case of Biei in Hokkaido, modern land plots, rational land use, and farmland development have spread over a wide area. Therefore, the entire town can be evaluated as a cultural landscape. In the case of Ogimachi in Shirakawa Village, the impact of modernization on traditional village scapes was identified by analyzing the elements lost to modernization and those not lost through modernization.

Free Research Field

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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

近代化遺産は建築物や土木工作物単体で価値を見出されることが多いが、文化的景観の分析手法を用い、地域のアイデンティティとなるような面的な広がりをもった評価を具体的な事例で行ったことに学術的な意義がある。対象事例はわずかだが、実際に評価が可能な事例と難しい事例とがあることが明らかとなった。また、文化的景観の変容にかんする研究は多く見られるが、景観構成要素ごとに詳細に変容を追うだけでなく、その要因についても分析したことに研究としての新規性があり、近代化の景観への影響を詳細に明らかにすることができた。