SPATIAL CONSTRUCTION PRINCIPAL AND SUSTAINABILITY AT CROFTING VILLAGE IN WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND

Abstract

‘Crofting’ is the traditional tenancy system including traditional culture, land use system in Scotland. Farmers are called ‘Crofter’ renting land from land owners. Crofting village has similarity with mountainous villages in Japan which have a traditional bond, collective work, traditional way of thinking. The paper aim to clarify the present situation of crofting village in viewpoint of sustainability and spatial construction principal. The principal is that keeping fertility and equality among crofters which made spatial character of crofting village, whether principals of Japanese village tend to protect lands from disaster and utility of water supply in general.