The common characteristic as the planning theory of Landscape ecology and Human Ecological planning

—Integration of divided science, Proposition of alternative planning solution—

Abstract

The author considered commonness and identity of R.T.T. Forman's Landscape ecology principal (LE) and I.L. McHarg's Human ecological planning (HEP), which have been set as main Landscape planning theories. As a result, it was clarified there was little comparing research that analyzed both planning theory. Then, research in Japan has focused the difference of LE and HEP in particular. The author compared both theory's philosophies, coverages, social implications. Then it found four common features of LE and HEP theory that had not been discussed sufficiently. 1) Spatial integration of many environmental scientific knowledge, 2) Contribution to a spatial planning, 3) Visualization of a desirable spatial utilization, 4) Land-use complexity of object area.