• KIEAE Journal
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.121-126
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• 2014

Many cities in Japan retain older city structures with buildings in traditional form and style. Visitors are fascinated by charms and tranquility of pre-modern life styles. Architectural features of olden days are well conserved or carefully restored on purpose. In the case of Kawagoe city near Tokyo, local residents are largely replete with visitors without being necessarily aware of slow commodification of historic spaces. Kawagoe is yet socio-culturally sustainable and financially fit. This paper intends to analyse conservation strategies, with focus on architectural heritage, taken for the historic city of Kawagoe. With the population of 300,000 in the suburb of Tokyo, it is one of the best known historic cities in Japan. Kawagoe grew as a merchant city since 1700s, and it once reached to a major port of silk trade en-route to Edo (Tokyo) from northen provinces. Tourism industry is discovered as a key element in the conservation strategies applied to revitalize historic city center, Ichibangai, an important cultural heritage site with special reference to kurazukuri. This paper argues that augmentation of conceptions in architectural heritage is not only advantageous for the conservation of historic urban environment but it also provides opportunities for sustainable urban renewal.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.323-335
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• 2005

본 연구의 목적은 지역주민과 행정당국의 노력을 통한 전통 건축물 경관의 보존과 활용 특성에 대하여 고찰하는데 있다. 도쿄 도심으로부터 30km 떨어져 있는 카와고에는 에도시대의 역사와 문화를 간직하고 있다. 전통적 창고구조 경관을 중심으로 한 이치반가이의 관광 특성은 가까운 지역에서 온 노년층의 비중이 높고, 당일관광이 주를 이루고 있다. 대부분의 관광객은 방문회수는 많지만, 소비금액은 비교적 적은 편이다. 이치반가이의 관광 활성화는 행정기관, 주민조직, 시민의 노력과 헙력의 결과이다. 행정기관에서는 문화재 지정, 조례제정, 면세혜택, 수리비지원, 공청회, 관광네트워크 구축 등 제도적 지원제계를 구축하교 있다. 이치반가이 주민들은 오래 전부터 자체적인 조합이나 모임을 조직하여 전통경관의 보존과 관광 활성화에 기여해 왔다. 그리고 시민조직과 행정당국의 긴밀한 헙력관계를 주도해온 각종 위원회의 역할이 활성화 되어 있다.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 1992년도 가을학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.11-26
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• 1992

An attempt has been made to summarize some of the unique geotechnical problems encountered during construction of a few large man-made islands recently completed off the coast of Osaka Bay, Japan. Large settlements appear to be the most serious problem both during and after construction. Settlements due to consolidation of a thick layer of soft alluvial clay that constitutes seabed seem to virtually cease within a relatively short period of time when vertical drains are installed adequately prior to fill placement. Settlements due to compression of underlying thick diluvial deposits consisting of layers of stiff clays interbedded with coarse-grained soils, however, continue over a prolonged period of time and call for special provisions for structures built on the artificial islands to cope with relatively large future settlements. Although accurate settlement prediction is not possible, it is both technically and economically feasible, nevertheless, to construct large-scale islands. Partjcularly attractive and promising is creation of sizable new areas for various purposes, immediately adjacent to highly-developed, densely-populated cities situated along the coast such as those around Osaka Bay.