Host: The City Planning Institute of Japan
The paper starts searches the origins of cultural landscape conservation. The method to analyze the development and changes in the cultural landscape conservation is based on the analysis of the legislative system. The paper describes how the approach to cultural landscape conservation has changed through the time; in an early stage, from the end of nineteenth century up to the middle of twentieth century, it has been imposed from central government as cultural value worth to be preserved beyond any other issue. From the second half of twentieth century cultural landscape conservation has been associated to planning. Such process has been completed in the twenty-first century as prefectures and provinces are now in charge of enhancement and promotion of the landscape. The paper in the conclusion focuses on the importance of local identity to ensure cultural landscape conservation.
