Management and Public Space Concepts in the Case of Adjacent Public Facilities and Urban Parks

Abstract

This paper focuses on Musashino Place and Kyonan-Fureai-Hiroba Park in Musashino City, Tokyo, Japan. The place and park provide examples of integrated maintenance and management methods at facilities and parks that are adjacent to one another. The objective of this research is to examine the characteristic ways in which various actors are involved in management that is aimed at the utilization of public facilities with adjacent urban parks. This study also discusses the ways in which those spaces are practically used. We consider the main points of this management type to be the following: (1) Clearly positioning cooperation in the planning stage, (2) Ensuring the compatibility of the area’s events and maintenance schedule, (3) Properly utilizing indoor and outdoor spatial characteristics, (4) Collaborating the activities of public and private actors in daily, (5) Implementing events that contribute to proper management.