The Validity of Indices for Preservation District Zoning-Historical TownScape Comparison Between Japan and the other Country

本文通过1999年对瑞典斯德哥尔摩老城区438个建筑立面的实地调查，展示了该地区具有特色的城市风貌。并以建筑群的立面数据为基础，采用作者在前期研究中提出的指标对建筑的形态属性进行了表征，并与日本历史木结构建筑的形态属性进行了比较，验证了“密度”、“连续性”指标的有效性。1）城市历史景观指数有助于揭示城市历史景观的统一性和多样性; 2）城市历史景观指数通过城市街道特征的差异来反映城市历史景观的差异性;指数的有效性是常见的情况下，木结构建筑，特别是“町屋”密集分布在日本的木制住宅区，在瑞典的石头建筑区。

This report shows the characteristic townscape of 438 facades in the old town of Stockholm, Gamla stan, Sweden, through the field survey in 1999. And the building form attributes with some indices proposed by the author, ourselves in the former research, are shown based on the facades data of building group, and compared with those of historical timber buildings in Japan.Then the validity of the indices-'density', 'continuity'-, are testified.Results are as follows ;1)The indices are useful to see the unity and the variety of historic townscape.2)The indices show the differences of historical townscape through the differences of the street character.3)The validity of the indices are common in case of timber buildings in particular 'machiya' densely located wooden housing districts in Japan, and stone buildings district in Sweden.