In this research, the desirable direction in planning of a neighborhood park that responds to the demand of short-term residents such as university students, as well as that promotes their participation in the park management and maintenance. For the specific university students in a suburban city, the evaluation experiment to the hypothetic characteristics of the neighborhood park was conducted. Through the factorial analysis on the result, two factors of the evaluation are extracted, and it was verified that these are interpreted as the degrees of two different aspects of enjoyment of the park desired by the students, that are the enjoyment of the park respectively as the facility for them to use, and as the field for them to participate, and it is suggested that these two factors should be taken into consideration in the planning process of parks for which the participation by the citizens is regarded desirable.
