A comparative study on landscape characteristics of Osaka [Japan] between today and the end of the Edo period based on visual and environmental evaluation of famous places
2001
Hanamura, C. (Osaka Prefectural Univ., Sakai (Japan)) | Kaga, H. | Shimomura, Y. | Masuda, N.
Famous places in a city mainly consist of the places which are crowded with a great number of people and have scenic beauty, and it is important to analyze famous places for study on cityscape. This study compared today's landscape characteristics and those of the end of the Edo period in Osaka to clarify characteristics Osaka has nurtured for a long time and to suggest how its landscape should be improved. In this study, scenes of ""Naniwa-Hyakkei"", the Landscape Print published in 1860, were defined as the old famous places, and pictures of guidebooks published after 1995 were defined as today's famous places. These famous places were evaluated from visual and environmental points of view, and were plotted on the cityscape structure map on which geographic features, business areas and major transportation networks were overlaid. The comparison of today's map and old map showed that, at the end of the Edo period, geographic features, such as Uemachi-daichi hill, and flat areas surrounding rivers and canals, had a closer connection with city activities, offering the cityscape rich characteristics, while today's cityscape was limited to city faculities, especially transportation networks, such as Osaka and Namba Terminal Stations, and main streets, such as Mido-suji, bringing less profound characteristics to the cityscape.
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