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Environmental protection is a major issue in Taiwan, the island susceptive by natural disasters such as typhoon, earthquake, flood, landslide and land subsidence. Therefore, it is a necessity to incorporate nature into city development planning. Since the 1980s Taiwan government proposed incentives for the local government trying to prevent an environmental disaster by providing public open space and enacting other policies and law. Kaohsiung is the second largest city in Taiwan after Taipei with rapid growth industrialized port causing more problems like transportation, pollution, poverty, birth growth, and more. Attempt to encompass the problem while improving people-s quality of living the Kaohsiung government developed a smart city as integrated solutions and build a lot of public open space. The public open space policy in Kaohsiung is in accordance with Articles 42 and 43 of “Urban Planning Act”, which is regulated to enhance the convenience of the citizen-s activities and to ensure a good urban living environment. Article 45 also stipulates the parks, green spaces, squares, childrens playgrounds, and stadiums. The public facility in this research is focused on parks. There are 37 parks in Kaohsiung. Parks is important for Kaohsiung people because parks are considered as part of the lifestyle and environmental protection specially to provide better air quality.