The Challenges and Measures to Conserve Private Wooden Areas in Historical Districts: Considering Landscape Conservation and Fire Prevention

In Japanese historical districts like old castle towns, there are clusters of temples and samurai residences formed through developing history. It must be effective if wooden areas in these clusters will be conserved to protect heritages for both of landscape conservation and fire prevention. The first research was practiced to understand whether these wooden areas had been lost or not in last 30 years. And following researches were analyzed how city officers evaluate their function in recent cases, and how city officers recognize the reasons that these wooden areas still survive and challenges to conserve them for future. Being based on the result of these researches, an institutional measure was proposed in order to conserve them for future.