Abstract
This study tried to consider some processes making changes by finding contextual affection to a historical park from citizens, municipality and central government with sociocultural perspective. In this paper, based on our empirical fact-findings and verifications, we were to try to understand some processes from a broad boulevard to modernized park which was Ohdohri park located in the center of Sapporo city. The boulevard assumed to be settled for dual role: firstly dividing commoners’ residence area and governmental official area, and secondary the axis showing the direction of east and west in gridiron town planning. There seemed to be several processes, which involved signs promoting modern visions of parks, happened during about 1885-1911. The followings three main different viewpoints should be taken into account. Namely, the first was seemed to be citizens’ actions to the park construction and their utilization of boulevard, the second was assumed to be some conversion of citizen’s attitudes from early modern to modern, and the third was thought to be change of the evaluation to the park by the side of administrations.
