Summary  The research is started from a critical mind that an evaluation about national land and urban landscape environment is absent which needs effective landscape management policy and promote strategy in national dimension, even though ‘Master plan for landscape policy is newly created in order to carry out national land management systematically in the「Landscape Act」on August 2013. Accordingly, the purposes of the research are to build up comprehensive and objective 'Landscape Evaluation Index' and establish a model to evaluate landscape competitiveness for individual urban landscape based on precede investigation of researches that are related with landscape evaluation, and deciding the ranking of landscape competitiveness of major cities, such as metropolitan city and megalopolis cities, on the basis of the evaluation. This would contribute to establish landscape-related policies and propose strategies in national and local government dimension through figuring out landscape potential and problems of each city by gathering and evaluating of basic materials that is necessity to propose policy direction on national dimension from now on.

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