2016 Volume 79 Issue 5 Pages 635-640
In Japan, the law for maintenance and improvement of traditional scenery was established in 2008. The plans based on this laws have been formulated by 49 municipalities. Although local governments have to grasp the tangible and intangible resources comprehensively in the planning area for the historic city planning, the positioning of local resources in the historic scenery maintenance and improvement plans has not been clarified. The purpose of this study is to clarify the positioning of local resources in these plans affected by the consultations in planning process. We did the questionnaire survey directed to the municipalities which create the officially approved plans by minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism. As results, we found that many cities created the plans mainly to get the much governmental subsidies of the projects. Moreover, we found that some important historic resources are not described in these plans due to the restrictions of this law, especially by the traditional scenery’s definition in the law which requires the set of tangible and intangible resources. In addition to creating these plans, few municipalities create the master plans for the historic city planning of entire town.
