A Study on the Spatial Characteristics of the Open Space in a Canal City

Recent years, the concern for familiar natural environment rises and the importance of “ Waterside ” is recognized again in the city part. Waterside space has been located as environmental resources with spatial value similar to the city park and the green tract of land in the people's livings. Moreover, it is thought that it is important to form the city with individuality where the effect of the amenity of the waterside space in the region were positively taken it in the city part. In this research, it pays attention to the region where the waterside is used as environmental resources. Maintenance in waterside as open space and the space characteristic is clarified. And it aimed to obtain a premeditated suggestion of the waterside space maintenance to which the waterside was positively taken in the city part of the future. Then, it is thought that it is important to catch the space characteristic of the waterside in relations with the resident. Therefore, maintenance and the space characteristic as the open space in the waterside are clarified through the transition of the form of use of the waterside, and researched on the way of the waterside space maintenance in the future.