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A Study of the Landscape Structure of the Rice Terrace Landscape, in Matsunoyama District Tokamachi City, Niigata Prefecture

2013; Volume: 76; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5632/jila.76.583

ISSN

1348-4559

Autores

Takato YOKOSEKI, Ryohei ONO, Hiromu ITO, Akio SHIMOMURA,

Tópico(s)

Urban and spatial planning

Resumo

Rice terrace landscape has attracted much attention as typical cultural landscape. However, the attention tends to be focused on apparent feature of well-stacked rice terraces. Instead of the external appearances, this study tried to understand some rice terrace landscapes as “landscape structures” and discussed their application for the conservation of cultural landscape. Landscape structures were defined as relationships among various environmental elements both in natural (i.e. topographical direction, edges and areas) and social (i.e. land use hierarchy from village center to its fringe) aspects. 39 villages in Matsunoyama district, Tokamachi City, Niigata Prefecture were examined, using topographical maps and aerial photographs, and 5 types of landscape structure were extracted. Though the most frequent type was observed in small villages, recognition should be given to each and all type of landscape for whole district’s landscape conservation with sustainability.

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