STUDY ON EVALUATION OF NIGHT LANDSCAPE IN SAKAI-SENBOKU COASTAL INDUSTRIAL AREA

Abstract

Recently, night industrial landscape, which is called Technoscape, in coastal industrial cities has obtained social attention as new material for industrial tourism. In spite of rush development of each project, fundamental research on detailed present condition of coastal landscape or its evaluation has not been enough quested. This study attempts to grasp elements forming unique industrial landscape and its evaluation in Sakai Senboku Coastal Industrial Area in Sakai and Takaishi, Osaka, with the analysis of descriptions and photos abstracted from blog web pages. We analyze the difference of landscape evaluation and determination of position for landscape perception between day-time and night-time. Principal foundations are: (1) For night industrial landscape, people tend to feel "illusory", and reflect the different world in it, such as science fiction movie, background of computer games or animations. (2) People are inclined to choose the geographical position without visual disturbance, water front with wide view, and position where they are able to perceive industrial facilities as a complex of different forms.