2013 Volume 48 Issue 3 Pages 303-308
Citizen participation has become an issue for all the process of public facility arrangement. This study focuses on the community-based intermediary organization and considers the demanded roles and outcomes on the support for citizen participation at public facility arrangement. In the case of the Okazaki City Library and Community Plaza "Libra", it turned out that a community-based intermediary organization harnessed its own characteristics in the arrangement process and that the specified items for the support were 1) design of workshop, 2) study for reference cases, 3) operation of astronghold for civic activities, 4) incubation and organization of civic activities, 5) involvement in circumference city planning, and 6) matching of various agents.
