A Study on the Access to Local Places in the Environmental Design Process

Abstract

In recent years, many places have been set up to support lives of the inhabitants. We call these places "Machikado-no-Ibasyo", which means the place set up on a street corner. We carried out a lighting event at Shinsenri-Higashimach. Through analyzing the process of this event, this article aims to clarify the roles of the "Machikado-no-Ibasyo" for outsiders and to study how outsiders can access the local places. This article clari ed following things. The roles of the "Machikado-no-Ibasyo" are that outsiders can �1�meet inhabitants anytime, �2�discuss with inhabitants, �3�work continually, and�4�deposit their products and tools. For outsiders, the access to regional places is realized by mediation of the host. We called the place, where the host exists and the outsiders can access, semi-public.