2017 Volume 80 Issue 5 Pages 707-712
The purpose of this paper is to clarify, how changing functional evaluations of green spaces correlate with road maps of spatial policies in the green space planning process in municipalities. Through surveys about Kawasaki City, Zushi City and Kamakura City in Kanagawa Prefecture, the following trend could be pointed out: Formerly, functional evaluations were conducted for relatively large areas in municipalities, focusing on the overall structure of green spaces. Those evaluations contributed to establishing typologies or divisions over the area, some of which were used as references in road maps of spatial policies. Later however, evaluations were conducted for limited areas in municipalities, where the main issue was relatively small green spaces in local communities. These evaluations contributed to the extraction of specific green spaces for the practical implementation of concrete spatial policies.
