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  • A STUDY ON THE PROPOSALS OF...
    NAKAJIMA, Naoto; NISHIMURA, Yukio

    Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ), 2002/07/30, Letnik: 67, Številka: 557
    Journal Article

    In the first half of 1930's, the Society of Civic Art made the epochal proposals to establish the municipal art commission in Tokyo. This paper is to review the process of making the first proposal (1930) and the second proposal (1934). Specifically, this paper is to focus on : 1)contacts with art commissions of cities in the United States and their direct influence, and 2)changes of relation between the Society of Civic Art and Tokyo City Government under the movement, which motivated by Tokyo City Government in this period, for realization of Tokyo metropolitan system.