THE CONCEPT OF MODERN PORT CITY CONSTRUCTION CONSISTING OF OSAKA HARBOR CONSTRUCTION, YODO RIVER IMPROVEMENT AND EXPANDED TOWN PLAN FOR OSAKA CITY

Abstract

 This study focuses on three simultaneous projects in the latter half of the Meiji era: the Osaka Harbor Construction and the Yodo River Improvement, and the Town Planning of the expanded Osaka City. These projects were planned by Koi Furuichi, Tadao Okino, and Hannroku Yamaguchi, all of whom were studying abroad at École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris in 1876-1879. Although the relevance among these projects and figures had been pointed out, it had not been recognized as an integrated business that shared one purpose since each was a large-scale business. This study shows the fact that these three huge construction projects were carried out holding a concept that brand new industrial system of the modern port city should be constructed as a whole, with an understanding of ÉCAM’s management perspective. So that, infrastructure to form industrial environment learned from study abroad was dynamically planned with complementary works specially on the waterfront zones with efficient cargo shipping system which were on the boundaries of each region, through from harbor construction and to town planning.