Abstract
To increase the diversity of user activities in public spaces, the expandability of daily personal uses is important. This paper’s purposes are to identify the theoretical issue of placemaking by checking placemaking against value co-creation theories in service research, and to prospect the way public space management ought to be to expand daily personal uses. By analyzing the theoretical system of placemaking and the perceptions of users of public space from the literature review, the two points have been clarified. First, It has not been confirmed that Service Logic is true of placemaking. This is found that the current theories of placemaking stand on Service-Dominant Logic, and there is no relation with Service Logic. Second, it can be contributive to the expandability of daily personal uses, even if the public space management never demonstrates to the users what they can do there directly and obviously. Both the idea of service as a struggle and attention to the direct interaction between users are helpful for such management.
