Research on conceptualization and implementation of "public scape"

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K14919
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 23030:Architectural planning and city planning-related
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Yoshie Shun 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 講師(任期付) (60844248)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 公共景 / 都市開発 / パブリックスペース / 民間企業 / 公共空間

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Amidst the shift from local government-led to private-sector-led public space development and expectations for this change,this study focused on the possibility that the design of public spaces and the landscapes of the people who use them may stimulate further active use of public spaces in a chain reaction, and called this "public-scape" to discuss the public role of landscapes beyond beauty and ugliness.
Specifically, three questions were set (organizing cases in which public-scapes are considered to have been realized, understanding the landscape elements in each case, and understanding the actual status of the entities and their efforts to create public-scapes) to analyze the perceptions and behaviors of users who form public-scapes, the spaces in which these activities take place, and the entities and their efforts to maintain such spaces.

Free Research Field

都市計画

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

民間企業が公共空間の整備に参入していく風潮に対して、本研究成果は、具体的に何をデザインの拠り所にしていけばよいかを多角的に検討したものである。そのために、公共的効果をもたらす風景について「公共景」というキーワードを与えながら、実現されている風景だけでなく人びとの認知、また整備主体の取り組みなど、風景とそれを実現させるシステムの全体像を捉えた。２０２２年度は都市開発を行っている複数の民間企業との議論を重ねることによって、開発者側の実情に沿いながらも、公共的環境を実現していく方向性を模索するという、研究と実践の橋渡しを行うことができた。