Abstract
Many local towns in Kagoshima Prefecture were damaged by bombing in the Pacific War, because these towns were closer to the front. This paper focuses on the plazas in these towns, planned and realized in the postwar reconstruction. The aims of this paper are to report the states of 1) planning, operation, and realization, and 2) present condition of the plazas after the renewal and re-developing works. Through this report, a critical moment for sustainability of the spatial assets produced by town planning is clarified. The points are as follows: Many civic spaces like the traffic circles and water front plazas had been planned and realized in these towns, and there was certain achievements of urban design. Nevertheless, most of these spaces were lost their spatial value and the meaning as planned, after the renewals only from functional point of view, and now might not be recognized as the space for citizens.
