Abstract
The Nishijin area of Kyoto City sampled for this study has shifted with little changes of characteristics of miscellaneous landuses for dwelling, repeating the generation and extinction of small textile industries in its traditional streets pattern in which inhabitants have inherited the conventional subdivision of lot. But in recent years, the industrial spaces which once disappeared can be hardly relocated in the Nishijin area. In this meaning, the transformation of the whole Nishijin area occurred by dropping out of small industries seems irreversible. This study aims to investigate problems existing herein a changing process of the landuse in the Nishijin area from a viewpoint with an emphasis on the recent difficulties of regeneration lying in location problems of small industries and to consider about themes of planning on mixed landuse. This study offers some findings and proposals as follows. (1) The landuse of the Nishijin is characterized by the traditional complex of textile industries which has formed the central district based on concentrating locations of public and communal facilities. But the recent change of landuse in the central district has become disadvantageous to textile industries which try to locate in the Nishijin area. (2) When textile industies move their locations from the central district toward the periphery, they are apt to subcontract works to smaller industries located in other areas including out of kyoto City. On the contrary, industries which want to keep present locations have maintained the historic interdependence orienting to the peculiar landuse of the central district. (3) The landuse planning for the Nishijin area should protect spaces for weaving and other allied industries and inherit stocks beeing generated by the historic locations of communal bases and the original townscape.
