Abstract
This study focuses on the cognition of "city planning" by the three famous silviculturists before WW2. Seiroku Honda, who was engaged in the planning of scenic areas from the 1910s, noticed the necessity of city planning in those areas from 1920, the year after the implementation of the city planning law in 1919, and adapted the idea of city planning to some of his plans. Tsuyoshi Tamura, who had an interest in parks and gardens, noticed the importance of developing scenic areas due to the citizen's needs at that time. He suggested the planning theory of scenic areas and gradually referred to the city planning to create hotels and restaurants district orderly. Keiji Uehara claimed the necessity of the city planning to conserve national park sites.
