Public Planning for Landscape Design Based on Soft-tourism in Local Host Town

Abstract

Based on the main subject, we examined three advanced examples of a local host community in our country, with a population of 10,000 individuals. Obuse Town and Shinano Town of Nagano are examples of such towns, and the landscape formation in their town planning is significantly based on “the aesthetic regulations” employed in designing Manazuru Town of Kanagawa. We proposed an ideal method of planning administration to be implemented by the partnership among citizen, government and enterprise. This method is based on town planning and the recent soft-tourism, which we considered from the strategic viewpoint of town management.