A Basic Study on Updating of Privately Owned Public Space in New York

Abstract

-Through consideration on the standards of the scheme underlying the open space creation - Toshihiro HORI, Hiroshi TSUCHIDAWe conducted a field survey on 316 cases of utilizing Privately Owned Public Spaces in New York City as antecedent cases for utilization of public spaces in Japan, and performed a comparative analysis with previous pictures captured in the preceding investigative study by Kayden in 2000 in order to superficially find out how POPSs are updated and managed. Taking into consideration the space characteristics of the created open spaces through discussion on the institutional background, we analyzed 1)the trend of updating in the whole city, 2) the components and updating systems of the updated spaces, 3)the relationships of the updated cases with era, location, system, or scale. The object of this study is to obtain basic knowledge regarding what Japan should do to solve the problem of aging public open spaces that is getting severer.