1984 Volume 48 Issue 4 Pages 219-222
IFLA World Congress XXIII will be held in Tokyo and Kobe from May 27 to June 1, 1985. Twenty years have past since the 9th IFLA Congress had been held in Tokyo in 1964. We intend to follow up the progress of various activities of Japanese landscape architects during these two decades in the context of social progress which have been expressed in the “Landscape Architecture in Japan” published by JILA after the previous World Congress in Japan.
Topics which were discussed in that book were; how to make good use of traditional manners of Japanese, how to make good use of traditional landscaping techniques in the planning and construction of public open spaces, how to enlarge the subjective space from gardens to citywide and regional wide scaled area, and how to take part in the planning project teams for environmental creation.
This issue contains the following six articles which were written in the context of making answers to the questions mentioned above and developing ideas for future days of Japanese landscape architectural activities.
1) Status quo of modern society and landscape architecture (by H. Ide), 2) Enviromental conservation policies in the nation wide land (by N. Shimada, O. Shakudo, N. Ito and H. Onodera), 3) Parks and open space creation in an urbanized area (by Y. Tashiro and A. Kobayashi), 4) Development of green open spaces (by H. Kimura, T. Inoue and Y. Ueno), 5) The roles of landscape architectural education (by H. Koshimizu and Y. Kumagai), 6) The progress of landscape architectural profession and its future (by K. Hirano and J. Minomo). Followings are breaf contents of each article.
