We aim to build the conservation system of agricultural dry stone wall. Dry stone walling techniques have been succeeded thorough centuries in each village, but now, the phenomenon of depopulation is bringing this traditional system into difficult, and dry stone walling techniques are faced with a problem of disappearing. So this study researched following two things. 1) To present the maintenance condition of stone walls and the succession of dry stone walling techniques in Tokushima Pref. 2) To make clear the differences and common techniques. In conclusion, the maintenances of stone walls are insufficient in almost places of Tokushima Pref. and we can say that the primal techniques are common in the whole prefecture.

View full abstract

 The purpose of this study is to clarify the effect on street image by cognitive characteristics of people in street. This study focuses on the schema acting to expect people presence in street. The results on memory experiment of objects in street, such as people, goods and sign, shows that schema acts strongly in a street within amounts of goods. Furthermore, the result of impression rating experiment of street pictures concerning different the amount of people shows that street image is likely to depend on the amount of people in a street with strong schema activation.

View full abstract

 The systems for conservation of rural landscape such as Landscape Planning or Important Cultural Landscape are made. But rural landscape are ruining because some farmland is abandoned. So in this article, I would like to propose “Dishes Making Landscape” Project. In order to the purpose, the 2nd and 3rd chapters discussed the meaning of the conservation of rural landscape and limitations on existent landscape policy or rules. The 4th chapter describes the recent movement of consumption. And the 5th chapter proposed “Dishes Making Landscape” Project as support for conservation rural landscape by eating vegetables and rice.

View full abstract

 The study aims to identify relationships between urban areas and bridges designed under the First Osaka Urban Planning Projects. First, we classified patterns of design forms on the bridges with a focus on handrail, main post, and lighting. Second, we conducted quantitative analyses with comprehensive consideration of multiple factors and classified types of bridge design into six clusters. Bridges of each cluster were expanded into a city-wide scale and linear scale, and characteristics of design forms on the bridges were different in each cluster. In conclusion, we showed that the characteristic of bridge designs was positioned by the grade of bridge and tendency of design forms on the bridge, and each bridges were developed temporally-spatially.

View full abstract