Methodologies and Challenges of 'View Protection Areas' for Landscape Planning in Japan
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This paper focuses on the methodologies of 'view protection areas' for landscape planning in Japan. Historically, view protection areas were studied the ad hoc way and the methods of visual impact assessment and building regulations are still under development. The characteristics of objects for viewing and the distance of regulation to these objects are different for each case. View protection areas were officially adopted in landscape plans at the local authority level after the first Japanese landscape law (no.110/2004).
The author studied not only the history of view protection areas for Japanese landscape planning but the recent challenges for view protection of Mt. Fuji from central Tokyo. Through case studies, this paper estimates the influences of the earth’s curvature and light refraction in a 100 km distance. Moreover, this paper offers information on regulation methods and the effects of view protection areas, through the author’s experience gained from the urban design committee of Shibuya City and Minato City in Tokyo.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12896/cse201700100101
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