Abstract
From the second half of 1910s to the first half of 1930s, in Osaka City where there were social problems caused by excess population, depression and air pollution, public park construction projects were developed on the establishment of City Planning Act. On the same time, the authorities in the Osaka City Government argued about ideas of public parks. I structurally analyzed these discourses in social contexts, so I could conclude as follows: 1. They designated labor class as main users of public park, and this idea derived from their new concepts on park function, not as ornaments but as public health and enlightenment. 2. So, they considered public parks as spatial apparatus. 3. But, these discourses didn't suppose the existence homeless people as users. 4. In spite of these discourses, public parks had to function as refuges for homeless people who were produced by social structures.
