A STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE ON PARK SYSTEM BY CONVERTING FORMER MILITARY LANDS INTO PARKS AND GREEN LANDS: A case study in Sendai city

Urban parks and green lands are the one new urban infrastructure created by war reconstruction plan. New parks and green lands were aimed to reserve open spaces in urban areas and to create modern format of urban parks. In Sendai city, former military lands are located as circular form that surround the central district of the city, which leads to the hypothesis that these military lands contributed to create the green circular belt in Sendai, by being converted into parks and green lands, cooperating with the government policy about parks and green lands after the war. To prove this hypothesis, this study analyzes the spatial converting process of former military lands into parks and green lands in the cities enforced special urban planning law that was out of the green regional system, from the pre and post war era to the high economic growth period. And this study also aims to reveal the transition of the plan and spatial characters about how parks and green lands in the central district were created and related to the existing parks. The study method is to analyze the spatial characters of the five parks and green lands located in the central district, by reproducing the planning and transition maps.