The community has gone through tremendous changes in the process of urbanization. These changes bring about the transformation of the “play, ” which, in turn, exercises significant influence on the personality formation of the child. In this paper, we try to frame this theme by investigating the transformation of children's play and by considering the matter of providing the “play-space” as an essential factor for the restoration of play.
First, we made a comparative case study of the play-space between 1955 and the present in a given elementary school district, which is the sphere of children's everyday activities. The results showed the fact that the decrease in the playspace immensely influences the place for everyday play activities and the patterns of the play, as well as the structure of the peer group.
Secondly, we discussed some concrete ways for providing the play-space to activate the play in children's lives: for examples, programming the facilities such as children's parks and children's community centers; restoring the function of the road as the play-space; and utilizing a school as the space. Lastly, from the viewpoint of children's benef its, we pointed out that community should be developed taking into consideration not only the architectural aspects of the comfortable living space but also the space for personality formation.

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