Historical Transformation of the Hakozaki Area as a Port Town in Fukuoka City

Originally, harbor was a point of contact of logistics and human flow. In analysis of city formation and development, it is significant to observe a port town. The subject of study is Hakozaki area long existed in Hakata Bay in Fukuoka City. The purpose of study is to consider the influence of city development on modernization by grasping historical transition of harbor. We used the literatures such as "Hakata harbor history" and "Fukuoka fishing village history", etc., the old maps and the old drawings. We arranged by the time series focusing on historical events up to the present from the formative period of the town.The points of this study are as follows.1) The space changes by reclamations after modernization separated waterside spaces from the life in Hakozaki area, and brought about a decline of the fishery. For this reason, the historic buildings landscape of the fishery settlement was lost partially. 2) The transitions of the coastline by modernization changed the sceneries of human activity, from human scale to infrastructure scale. 3) It is guessed that only the trunk road progressed by the delay of urban development, and the old street originating in the fishing village was saved extensively in Hakozaki area. 4) It is grasped that modernization provided the city with both sides of dramatic change and preservation.