本稿は、2014年４月に日本の「近代化産業遺産」としてははじめてUNESCO世界文化遺産に登載された富岡製絲場と絹産業遺産群を通じて日本の近代化産業遺産と都市再生の關係を考察したことである。まず、富岡市が1972年に開催した「日本近代産業發祥100年祭」をきっかけで、富岡製絲場が非西歐圈で唯一に「近代化」に成功した國家というプロパガンダ一が投影された最初の「近代化遺産」として認識される過程を確認した。また、富岡製絲場の保存をめぐる富岡市と片倉工業社の對立、そして世界遺産登錄のための「街つくり」 計畵推進と地域住民の積極的な參與及び協力は核心的觀点から分析されてきた日本の街つくりとは、その內容が全く異なる、むしろ官よりも住民が歷史的公共性をもって私的所有權者を壓迫して推進された、所謂官民一體型の街つくりの事例であることを確認した。

This study investigated the relationship between modern age industrial heritage and urban regeneration in Japan through Tomioka Silk Mill and related sites (富岡製絲場と絹産業遺産群) registered in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Sites for the first time as a ‘modern age industrial heritage’ of Japan in April 2014. First, this study investigated the process in which with the ‘Centenary Celebration for the Conception of Japanese Modern Industry’ held by Tomioka City in 1972 as a momentum, Tomioka Silk Mill became perceived as the first ‘modernized heritage’ in which the propaganda that Japan was the only country that succeeded in ‘modernization’ in the non-Western world was reflected. In addition, this study found out that it was an example of the so-called Machizukuri by the united efforts of officials and people, promoted as the residents rather pressed the right of private ownership, just as good as the government, using historical publicness as a weapon, judging from the characteristics, totally different from the contents of Machizukuri in Japan, which has been analyzed from the innovative perspective, such as the conflict between Tomioka City and Katakura Industries surrounding the preservation of the Tomioka Silk Mill, the promotion of a plan for ‘Machizukuri’ to register it as a world heritage and the active participation and cooperation of the local residents.