Limestones have been playing important roles in offering fundamental materials for construction of public infrastructure. There are many limestone quarries in Japan and they formed the cement industrial cities around them with conspicuous industrial landmarks. Cement industries brought wealth to the city and advanced infrastructures, such as high-graded trunk roads or rich architectures. In addition, huge cement works form characteristic technoscape (industrial landscape) which is cherished by local people as their home landscape. This study manifests the landscape properties of cement and limestone industrial cities, by observing 37 cities in Japan, with in-situ survey of the landscape, bibliographic and folklore survey of lime-originated folk customs, festivals or local songs. The findings of this study are, (1) Prominent technoscape of cement is formed in process of cement production, lime transportation and lime quarry, (2) Landscape of limestone-originated nature, such as karst valley, limestone cave, or karst polje (large elliptical depression) is formed nearby, and (3) Lime-originated natural landscape formed by easy erosion of limestone took on sublime appearance, generated animism, and it has been existing with deformation or relocation by companies after industrialization.
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