International Symposium “Space, Culture, and Regeneration of Cities in History” 3–4 Dec. 2012

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Event Name

（Japanese)国際シンポジウム「歴史都市の空間・文化・持続再生：都市インフラおよび〈領域〉的視座の国際比較」
（English）International Symposium “Space, Culture, and Regeneration of Cities in History: From the Viewpoint of International Comparison of Territory and Infrastructure”

Basic Information

〔date〕3, 4 December 2012
〔location〕Department of Architecture Engineer Building No.1, Lecture Hall (Room 15), The University of Tokyo
〔language〕English
〔distribution〕Proceedings
〔visitors〕about 80 people

Preface

Twelve years have already passed since the twenty-first century started and people become inevitably aware of a lot of crises and serious problems in human settlements all over the world; fatal disasters, global environmental pollutions, the decline of city culture in general, and so on. This international symposium attempts to challenge these aporia through international collaboration and tries to exchange and integrate specialized knowledge towards the new approaches of urban studies.
This meeting is organized by the research project group “Society of Urban and Territorial History” of Japan which has been engaged in research exchanges among the countries of the Netherlands, France, Italy, and Japan, especially in the field of the history of urban infrastructure and the territorial background of studied areas.
Inviting researchers from various fields of areas in consideration, this symposium aims to review our experiences and to develop cross-cutting academic exchanges on the history of human settlements and their territory. e key issue is the common standpoints and novel vision regarding the urban and territorial studies which will be crucial to rethink the problems of urban settlement in the future.

Program

3rd December

Introduction / Takeshi Ito (the University of Tokyo)

Keynote Speech / Hidenobu Jinnai (Hosei University)

Evolution of the Method for Urban and Territorial Studies Based on History and Ecology

« 1st session Water and Territory »

Giancalro Paba (University of Florence)

Democratic Water: From the ‘Watershed Democracy’ to the Participatory River Planning

Gilles de Langen (Province of Friesland / University of Groningen)

On the Origin and Shape of Medieval Villages and Towns in Friesland, the Netherlands: The Settlement Structure of Leeuwarden 450–1435 AD.

Miki Sugiura (Tokyo International University)

Small Cities in the Waterland. Reconsidering Friesland’s Urban Network 1750-1850

Jean-Loup Abbé (University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail)

Conquest of Lowland and Local Society in the Medieval France

« 2nd Session Mountain and Territory »

Matteo Dario Paolucci (Hosei University)

Rural Landscape and Settlement in Veneto

Takeshi Ito (the University of Tokyo)

Spatial History of Mountainous Territory in Japan

Kosei Hatsuda (the University of Tokyo)

Mountains as Resources: Formation of Mining City, Aikawa in Sado Island

Masao Noguchi (Tokyo University of Arts)

Formation of Historical Small Cities and Territory in Toscana—The Magra Valley in Lunigiana—

Makoto Kato (Japan Women’s University)

Power over Bastides and Mines in Medieval Languedoc

4th December

« 3rd Session Culture and Technology in Territory»

Koichi Kato (the University of Tokyo)

Stone Quarries and the Construction in Medieval France

Masanori Sakano (Musashi University)

The Bishops and Their Influence over Territory in Early Modern France

Jack Thomas (University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail)

The Double Transportation Revolution in Languedoc and its Consequences, 1650-1880

Tomoaki Nakashima (Kogakuin University)

Reorganization of Territory in the Low Countries by the Construction of the Urban Fortifications in the 17th century

Hans van Meerendonk (Province of Friesland)

International Collaborative Activities in Friesland

Kazue Akamatsu (the University of Tokyo)

Villas and the Arno Basin in Tuscany

Mayumi Watanabe (Tokyo Zokei University)

“Prato della Valle” in Padova: A Remarkable Space Regenerated from a Damp Area

Paola Falini (University of Rome)

Conservation Technology of Cultural Landscape

Discussion

Closing Remarks / Nobuyuki Yoshida (The Iida Institute of Historical Research)

A Peripheral of Traditional City “Edo” and “Territorial Structure” （「伝統都市・江戸の周縁と地帯構造」）

Proceedings

• Society of Urban and Territorial History (ed), Space, Culture, and Regeneration of Cities in History: From the Viewpoint of International Comparison of Territory and Infrastructure, Proceedings of the International Symposium in Tokyo, 3–4 December 2012.

Committee

• Chairman: Takeshi Ito
• Honorary Member: Hidenobu Jinnai, Nobuyuki Yoshida
• Chief Organizer: Kazue Akamatsu, Kosei Hatsuda
• Executive Members: Kenjiro Totsuji, Mina Kojima, Genki Takahashi, Mizuki Fukumura, Satoshi Miyawaki