エリアマネジメントの実践に関する一考察

Abstract

From the point of view of Area Management, a voluntary and non-commercialized party can be the first key factor in order to build a good and matured community in urban area, and it may, generally, be recognized soon. However, there is no concrete idea or theory in such group's activities yet. As a challenging case to realize active and creative community building for a main body such as a NPO, activities of “Ligare” for Otemachi-Marunouchi-Yurakucho area should be introduced and examined: DAI-MARU-YU Area Management Organization, (Authorized NPO, Shigenori KOBAYASHI, Board Chairperson), -“Ligare” for nominal designation.Activities of Ligare are classified into three categories: 1) vitalizing the local community and economy, 2) improving environment of the area, 3) promoting exchanges within and in/around the area and formation of vivid community.Public Open Spaces are the second key factor. And Publicly Provided Open Spaces which are developed by regulations are excellent infrastructure as public open spaces.Recently, Tokyo Municipal Government enacted a unique city ordinance called “SHARE-MACHI Jorei”, which contains measures to make more effective use of publicly provided open spaces.They registered Ligare as the core group for the specified area and allow the group to ease regulations for usage of publicly provided open spaces; and as a result, it enables the group to make more independent and creative activities. This could be a good example that relaxations of regulations for usage of publicly provided open spaces for such registered NPO is an efficient measure to promote and develop urban community building in Japan.