抄録
Since 1962, Shuto Expressway has been playing an important role in enhancing mobility in Tokyo area, offering novel landscape in the city at the same time. This paper attempts to clarify the transition of technical method to treat landscape, and social image toward its view, and their correlations.
In earlier times, view of Shuto Expressway was taken with positive image of modernism with its elegant shape formed by structural design. In early 1970's its image turned negative by pollution problem and several methods aimed to weaken its visual tension. Recently, the image turned positive again. Verbal technique made parts of Expressway of “the Sights”, and visitors discovered its essential beauty from novel angle. That caused us to fmd morphological interest in it.
