City Planning Management through Social Experiment: Rambling Activities for Urban Regeneration

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24360253
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Town planning/Architectural planning
• Research Institution: Osaka City University
• Principal Investigator: Kana Koichi 大阪市立大学, 大学院工学研究科, 准教授 (70381978)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SAKUMA Yasutomi 大阪市立大学, 大学院工学研究科, 講師 (30367023) ; HORI Hirofumi 大阪市立大学, 都市研究プラザ, 特任講師 (00614653)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 都市計画 / 都市・地域計画 / 回遊 / 実証社会実験 / 都市計画マネジメント

Outline of Final Research Achievements

(1) Database for a Social Experiment with Rambling Activities: We constructed a database for a social experiment with rambling activities through research in eight cities overseas and four domestic cities. We found that social experiments were classified by “Transportation,” “Public Space,” and “Event.” Through analysis of city size, we revealed that “open-cafe;” initiatives need a large sized city, but “Marche,” “town-walking events,” and the “Machinaka Bar” can be organized in some small cities.

(2) Social Experiment: We conducted social experiments at both downtown and waterfront locations. We evaluated the influence on rambling activities of the “Kitashinchi Garden Bridge Cafe;” social experiment, an example of the bridge type experiment. We understood that a key issue is the relationship between the safety of visitors and selling alcoholic drinks. We found that that the open-cafe; on the bridge became a tool for improving rambling activities.

Free Research Field

都市計画