STUDY ON THE DEFINITION OF THE NAME, LIMITS AND BUFFER ZONES OF THE WORLD HERITAGE PROPERTY IN QUITO, ECUADOR: ANALYSIS OF PLANNING MAPS FOR DELIMITATION OF THE 'HISTORIC CENTER' BASED ON THE CHRONOLOGICAL TRANSITION OF PRESERVATION LEGAL INSTRUMENTS

摘要

The "City of Quito" in Ecuador, is one of the first properties inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1978. However, through the analysis of the Nomination Dossier and ICOMOS Advisory Body Evaluation of the "City of Quito", several ambiguous items related to the name, limits and buffer zones of the property could be found. This ambiguity makes difficult to discern if the entire "City of Quito" or the "Historic Center" is the concerned World Heritage property. This study is aimed to analyze the planning maps, Nomination Dossier and submitted maps related to the inscription of the "City of Quito", in order to determine the name, limits and buffer zones of the World Heritage property, and in addition to determine the changes on the planning maps until the present. Based on the analysis, this study has concluded that it would be better to revise the name of the World Heritage property to "Historic Center" instead of "City of Quito" according to the Legal Status of the Nomination Dossier. As a result, it would be better to revise the limits and buffer zones according to the current planning maps of legal instruments.%本研究は、1978年に世界で最初に登録された世界遺産の1つであ るエクアドルの「CITY OF QUITO」を対象にしたものである。筆者に ょる既往研究（参考文献7））を通して、「CITY OF QUITO」は、1978 年以来現在まで約30年間に渡って世界遺産に登録されてきているが、 登録申請書類であるNOMINATION DOSSIERを分析すると、世界遺産の 名称、範囲及び緩衝地帯が不明確であるといういくつかの曖昧な内 容が含まれていることが明らかとなった。