Host: The City Planning Institute of Japan
Many cities in Japan try to preserve the historical streets now. But the carpenter's skill to preserve the historical streets is steadily declining. In short, one of the ways of the city planning of preserving the historical streets ignores the carpenter's skill. Then this study investigates an example of the city planning for preserving the historical streets and points out the problems in Kyoto. Moreover, this study investigates some examples of the city planning that carpenters participate and finally considers the method of the city planning that makes use of carpenter's skill.
