생활밀착형 정원은 거주민들의 일상생활 및 정주환경과 밀접하게 관계가 있는 범주 내에 조성된 정원을 말한다. 본 연구는 주민참여형 계획기법을 활용하여 정원 조성의 기본 계획과 틀을 마련하였다. 또한 두 대상지는 주거단지의 물리적 형성구조가 혼재형과 블럭형 단독주택단지로 차별성을 갖는다. 본 연구를 통해 첫째, 녹지가 부족한 구도심에서는 개별적 녹지가 주민합의와 동의를 통해 공공적 녹지로 기능할 수 있었다. 둘째, 심미적 가치로 주민들이 밝아진 골목 환경을 인지하고, 꽃과 정원시설로 계절의 변화를 즐겼다. 셋째, 정원을 매개로 이웃과 소통이 일어났으며, 주민들이 계획단계부터 참여함으로써 자발적 관리로 이어졌다. 주민참여형 생활정원은 주민들의 실천적 태도라는 시대적 요구를 반영한 구도심 마을정원의 새로운 유형으로 의미가 있다.

본 연구는 생태관광 개발과 지속적인 발전에 있어 가장 중요한 요소 중의 하나인 주민참여 부분에 대한 연구로서 지역 생태관광 개발에 있어 우선 고려되어야 할 주민참여 방법과 선행 해결과제들을 조사 분석하였다. 조사는 국내 산촌지역으로 자연환경이 우수하고 접근성이 좋아 개발가능성이 높은 지역을 선정하여 현지 방문조사를 실시하였다. 장기 부재중인 주민을 제외하고 각 지역에 거주하고 있는 190명의 주민을 대상으로 조사 분석한 결과 지역주민들은 생태관광 개발에 대해 긍정적이며, 관광개발계획 수립단계부터 적극적인 참여를 원했다. 또한 생태관광 개발에 있어 가장 중요한 것은 자연환경보전을 전제로 한 지역경제 및 개인소득의 증대로서 이를 위해서는 가장 먼저 관련 법 제도적 정비와 함께 지역주민에 대한 교육이 선행되어야 한다고 나타났다.

This study aimed to explore how to lead locals to join rural downtown regeneration projects on the basis of the downtown of Obuse Town located in Nagano Prefecture in Japan. What well depicts the outcome of Obuse Town Project joined by residents are revitalized downtown districts and open gardens. Actors that facilitated residents’ participation are administration, "a-la Obuse Co. Ltd. and "Machizukuri Institude of TUS and Obuse Town". "a-la- Obuse Co. Ltd. " is a middle support organization in the form of community business and "Machizukuri Institute of TUS and Obuse Town" is a professional research institute set by Tokyo University of Science and Obuse Town. This study presented activities, types and roles of residents’ participation in the rural town activation project that started in 2015 by researching the activities of residents, shop owners and students with regard to Obuse Town Project, administrative actions for their participation and activities of middle-level supportive institutions, which are exports' research groups.

After the 2000's, the rural village development projects are designated as participatory rural village development programs and projects. The purpose of this study is to draw a scheme to facilitate resident's participation in rural village development project by exploring the factors influencing resident's participation. For this, in Namsa rural theme village in Dansung-myon, Sanchung-gun, Kyongnam Province, the data were collected through field surveys and interviews residents residing in this village. In addition, observations studies and an opinion survey of the persons concerned in the presentation meetings were also conducted. I investigated and analysed the activation factors and the characteristics of residents' participation, and amenity resources which were essential for community planning including the planning-establishment, theme-searching and development of experience program. Through this study, I drew findings as follows; 1) The leader's leadership and residents' positive participation are very important activation factors in the first stage of rural viability. 2) And then, the external support and concern, the establishment of short-and long-term community planning, and the rural-income increase through the development of amenity resources play important roles as activation factors in the successive stage of rural viability. Based on the results of this study, the following recommendations were made. In order to improve the level of resident's participation in rural village development programs and projects, it is necessary to evaluate their successes, failure, barriers and the positive correlation between their success more delicately. In addition to this, it must be suggested the better model for participatory rural village development programs for the further enhancement and improvement of rural village development projects.

The purpose of this study is to verify the result of the previous studies and to clarify the types and activation factors of maintenance activities of the naturally favorable water space through the participation of residents in rural areas, through a further survey of the area proposed as a program in the existing study review and previous study related to the participation of residents. The survey was conducted through the survey of 1,242 households and 1,335 persons intended for Japanese rural areas. The study result is summarized as follows. The types of the maintenance activities in the areas intended for the survey have been classified into 'rural type' and 'combination type' through the analysis results by the references like the comparison analysis, job percentage and main utilization purpose of facilities for each type of maintenance and operation activities. In case of the 'rural type' area, residents were doing maintenance activities centered on the group activities rather than personal maintenance activities. Also, the activities of maintenance & operation group members were more active than non-members, and the water-friendly utilization to the facilities was not directly affecting the maintenance activities of residents. In case of the 'combinational type' area, there was no common characteristic according to each area, and the participation percentage in the maintenance activities was low compared with the 'rural type' area. According to the analysis result based on the participation degree of personal maintenance activities, the repair of facilities as a naturally favorable water space, implementation of projects reflecting the opinions of residents, educational programs conducted in order to motivate the participation of residents, etc. have been analyzed as the factors affecting the activation of maintenance activities of residents. Through the above results, for continuous maintenance activities to be made with residents as a main body in the future, it is necessary to support maintenance groups on an administrative level and procure experts for the production and operation of programs that can increase the participation percentage of residents.