2010 Volume 18 Issue 1 Pages 21-28
In recent years, town planning has increasingly focused on regional history and culture. The education of town planning students now emphasizes such factors, particularly in fieldwork education where we are looking for more efficient and effective ways of doing research. Our students prepared a report emphasizing local culture in an effort to develop an ideal plan for a historically significant region - a post town that prospered during the Edo period (1603-1867). The town has changed greatly because of the reclamation of coastal areas and the loss of buildings burned during a conflagration in the Edo period. The “town that had been lost” was experienced by walking through the area using a PDA input with a current map of the coastline and/or an old map drawing from the Edo period. Of special significance is the software we developed for the PDA that was used by students. This paper describes the functions of the software, the fieldwork that was performed, and what this study should contribute to the region.
