Inquiry of the Value of Parks in the Characteristics and Use of Park Through Urban Revival Planning Projects in Maebashi City

Abstract

Recently, the interest about environment of park rises. But it does not become clear enough, that environment of park in local city. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the evaluation on the urban parks in Maebashi city, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. One example of a local city in Japan, there are a stock of many parks from post-war urban revival planning projects, and aims to consider the evaluation of development by park planning and use through an understanding. We researched on the relation of these parks planning and using by the historical materials. Result of investigation, we obtain the characteristic and the subject in urban revival planning projects
Maebashi city. In addition we consider the changing use of these parks, Maebashi park, Shikishima Park, and Hirose Riverside park road.