Contemporary Tokyo is a city that has lost its connection to its abundant moat and waterway system due to its uncontrolled urban growth and environmental negligence. Now, the myriad of culverts-turned greenways stands as reminiscent of that time. This paper examines the quality of space produced in the waterway's afterlife by adopting the Lefebvrian space production. To do so, it is first recognised that scales are an integral part of assessing space production due to the linear nature of the public element being examined. A framework is constructed to serve as a tool to 'read' the lived, conceived and perceived space in different dimensions of the greenway. Its structure comprises different attributes and sub-attributes that provide a descriptive meaning to each scale. The framework is then applied to the case study, Kitazawa Greenway, a locally beloved waterway-turned-greenway in Setagaya ward in Tokyo. It is concluded that the middle scale of the linear public element is where the predominantly lived space, thus lived quality, is generated. The perceived space is predominant on the microscale and the conceived space on the macro scale.