HISTORICAL CHANGE OF THE JAPANESE COMMUNITY GARDEN AND ITS PUBLICNESS

Abstract

This research examines the processes of developments of community gardens in Japan, and discusses about the of community gardens as public spaces. Community gardens in Japan were introduced before WWII as one of the forms of urban open space such as Kleingarten in Germany and Allotment in England. In the postwar period, they expanded in quantity as a practical use of the urban unused farmland, and nowadays it is provided from the view of urban environment and rural development. Furthermore, the publicness of Community gardens in Japan is what various subjects intentionally give in its historical transition.