2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Basic Study on Urban History of Mediaeval Town, Bastide in South-West France
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16560563
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Architectural history/design
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
ITO Takeshi The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Architecture, Professor (20168355)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | Bastide / Plaza / 慣習法 / パレアージュ |
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| Research Abstract |
During the fiscal year of 2004-2005, I had been visiting fifteen typical Bastide towns. In each town, I collected old town maps, cadastral maps, and a number of previous papers and books. In Japan, the existence of Bastide towns have been very little known so far, that is why the research was expected to be one of the most fundamental basis and available data should be collected as much as possible. According to the detailed analysis of materials which had been collected, we can clarify the fact as following:
As the results of political and economic background of medieval Europe, a huge number of new towns called Bastide were established under the various kinds of political powers, like French King, England King, feudal powers and so on. There are so many typologies of the town plan of Bastide that we can hardly build up the comprehensive classification. In this reason, this classification methodology will be most important in this research. I try to make focus on the topographic condit
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ions like mountain and river, hill and valley, and then on the street patterns, square plaza's layout, catholic church's location, the size of urban blocks and each parcel's size, city gates' location and so on. Under these indications of typologies, we can come to some comprehensive classification of Bastide town with regard to the physical configuration.
Another problem of Bastide is the existence of a central square plaza. Through a lot of materials we can safely say that the square plaza is almost independent of the religious elements, instead, it is clearly positioned as a center of trade place. After disappearing of the ancient Roman town, the development of the social division of labor, the new urban and rural construction progress turned out to become necessary of extensive trading system and the new way of distribution. The critical conflict between England and France was focused on the territory, of south west French and a number of Bastide towns were positioned on this broad aria during thirteenth century.
To expand on this conclusion, further investigation should be required. As a stepping stone we could realize an important meeting for cooperation with the Center of Bastide Study Institute which is located in Ville Franche de Rouergue, Less
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Research Products
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