THE ACTUAL MAINTENANCE OF HISTORIC TOWNSCAPE IN PRESERVATION DISTRICTS OF NAGOYA CITY

Case study on Shikemichi district and Nakaotai district

Abstract

Nagoya city, as an active megalopolis, has a unique code for townscape preservation, in which four areas are designated as the preservation districts. The code itself is not a regulation with legal force. But it is a means to provide subsidies to authentic preservations and landscape enhancements. This paper aims to clarify characteristics of the code by analyzing the preservation/landscape-enhancement standards and then to review the result of the code execution based on the case study of two preservation district located in the central part of Nagoya city.