Aesthetic issues of railway stations in Japan and in Europe
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Ewa Maria Kido
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Improving Infrastructure Worldwide, Weimar, Germany, 19-21 September 2007 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Weimar 2007 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 260-261 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2007 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137807796157850 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Aesthetics has been described as an important factor of railway infrastructure. The paper characterizes policies of railway companies in Japan and Europe during recent period of “station renaissance” when aesthetics became important issue. It compares Japanese and European railway stations and introduces strategies to improve design process and stations in Japan, such as strengthening of the relationship between city planning, station planning and management; reinforcing the advanced community-based planning; introducing the measures to increase public awareness of aesthetics; promoting of a comprehensive station design; enforcing of landscape and aesthetic control; conducting design competitions for railway stations and maintaining stricter control of advertising in public places. |
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| Keywords: |
aesthetics railroad station context-sensitive design station renaissance
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