The purpose of this study is to evaluate realization of “Compact Farm” that is the proposal for the rural landscape conservation corresponding to the population decrease of Japan. This study method is the interview survey of local governments and local farmers, the legal system analysis related to agriculture, and the workshop for organizing the opinions of local residents. As a result, this study clarified the following; (1) The legal process for aggregation and exchange of agricultural lands, (2) The legal process for changing from agricultural land to forest, (3) The feasibility of this proposal seen from the local government and residents opinion.

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 In this study, the spatial structures of Satogawa were clarified. Japanese landscape of the river was clarified by comparing the present landscape and mental landscape that residents draw.
 Onogawa flowing through the central and southern part of Oita Prefecture has been the subject of this research. Surveyed villages estimated to Satogawa were chosen by the following three points. To the first point, village close to the river has been selected. To the second point, village with minimum houses to maintain river was chosen. To the third point, the river flowing through the village which width was less than 100meter more than 5meter was chosen.
 We surveyed these chosen villages. The items obtained in the field survey were analyzed by mathematical quantification theory class III. Cluster analysis was performed by using the results of the mathematical quantification theory class III. The results of the analysis, Satogawa were classified into four clusters.
 In the questionnaire survey, answers in all clusters were same answers that there were favorite landscapes nowadays than that of past. Features of favorite landscape were less weeds, wide water surface width and high visibility of the river. There were favorite landscapes in frequently using river section. Satogawa landscapes of each cluster were reproduced by the results of interview about landscape of the past.
 From the foregoing, the following three points have been clarified. To the first point, spatial structure of Satogawa was clarified. To the second point, Satogawa were classified by the mathematical quantification theory class III and cluster analysis. To the third point, Satogawa landscape image, which is mental scenery, was created by interviews and questionnaire survey, and Guidelines for landscape restoration were shown.

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 The purpose of this study is to target the nightscape of waterfront restaurants that is evaluated for a long time, is to clear the necessary conditions of waterfront restaurant for continue to the business a long period. This study analyzes for the text of “Tokyo-Yakei guide book” that targets restaurants to continue the long-term business by attractive waterfront nightscape.
 As a result, this paper clarified belows as the establishment types by a common point of the data; (1) the attractive watersurface view type, (2) the view type of urban waterfront with carved coastline, (3) the view type of the town with curved coastline looked down from waterfront boundary, (4) the panorama type viewing the city lights from high-rise restaurant on waterfront.

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 The purpose of this study is to examine facilitation and inhibition in recognition of historical streetscape based on experimental psychology method. It was cued recognition task where the stimuli were pictures of Japanese style facade and two types of the presentation condition of stimuli were set, one was the successive cued stimuli condition that the cued stimulus was presented before presentation of target stimulus and the other was the simultaneous cued stimulus condition that the cued stimulus was presented at the same time as the target stimulus. As the results, it was found the recognition score became high score in case that the successive cued stimuli was high score of both Japanese sense and authenticity. In contrast, it was found the recognition score became low score in case that the successive and simultaneous cued stimuli was high score of both Japanese sense and authenticity.

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 The village of Onta, Japan, where they have produced traditional pottery since the early 18th century, was designated as one of the Important Cultural Landscapes of Japan in 2008. This study is to investigate exactly how pottery households view and assess their surroundings by requiring them to take pictures of the landscape (Photo-Projective Method). By comparing the results with those obtained earlier in another, relevant pottery village called Koishiwara, the study explores how the landscape of producing pottery/ traditional craftwork should be managed and utilized for tourism as well as the quality of life of local people. It is found that potters' existential landscape elements in Onta are characterized by a wide variety of phases of work and humans as photographic subjects, tools, specific workshops, middle areas between indoor and outdoor spaces, etc. Onta potters tend to look at their landscapes from an inward point of view while Koishiwara potters tend to look at theirs from an outward view point; thus, it is important for regional planners/ managers to pay much attention to the difference when pursing tourism in Onta in avoidance of unnecessary conflict of interest.

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 The authors participated in a working group for the aesthetic design of Kasegawa Dam, completed in 2012 in Japan, as academic experts and structural design consultants. We set our goal to present the dam's structural feature of free overflow spillways lined up over the almost entire length of the crest as simple as possible. This paper explains the team's design process and the outcomes. To achieve the goal, we applied functionalism and minimalism as major design concepts, and redesigned or relocated several attached facilities, such as reserve gate control houses, a multilevel intake tower, and an elevator shaft. We now recognize that our effort of optimizing the volume, shape and location of major attached facilities based on minimalism and functionalism could successfully improve the aesthetic quality of Kasegawa Dam.

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 This paper reports on and analyzes the design process of the public space for the reconstruction land readjustment project of Machikata District, Otsuchi Town. It also examines the roles of the public space and challenges of the design process in the reconstruction project. Consequently, we showed that the roles of public spaces in Machikata District can be organized into three points: the construction of a pedestrian network in consideration of daily life and emergency situations, the realization of rich living spaces for neighborhood communities, and the creation of landscapes as the central area of a new town. In addition, we discuss the challenges of the design process in realizing these roles under the difficult conditions of the reconstruction project.

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 Cultures of urban rivers have been created thorough strong relationships with people's lives. To develop a vision of urban river restoration, it is necessary to understand the relationships between humans and rivers and its history. Horikawa River in Nagoya, Japan, had been recognized as “the river of lumber”, and supported the urban developments. In addition, the activities relating to lumber industry had formed the waterfront spaces along the river. This study aims to explore the relationship between human and the river by clarifying a transition of waterfront spaces and its utilizations focusing on lumber industry. The result shows that Horikawa River was utilized connecting water surface with river bank spaces in terms of business forms related to lumber industry, and the characteristics have been disappeared thorough the history.

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