&nbsp;The streets of Edo's commoners district (choninchi) were maintained and managed by the townsmen who lived in the district. The shogunate, on the other hand, was responsible for controlling and managing the various activities conducted on the street. While the commoners, in other words the townsmen, led the actual maintenance work, the town commissioner (machi-bugyo) and street commissioner (michi-bugyo) were the shogunate officers in charge of supervising the work. The purpose of this paper is to diachronically illustrate the shogunate's governance and management system for street spaces in Edo's commoner district from the mid-17^th to late-18^th century. This paper uses the term &ldquo;street spaces&rdquo; to comprehensively describe the human and built environment that evolves along the street.<br>&nbsp;The first section investigates the basic system of management by the town commissioner and street commissioner. It points out that until the mid-18^th century, the shogunate was oblivious to the various maintenance and management activities carried out by the townsmen in street spaces. It was only afterwards that a management system for street spaces was established by the shogunate by mandating an application process for the various management and construction activities carried out on the street.<br>&nbsp;The following section analyzes the reasoning behind the town commissioner's control over street spaces in the commoners district, based on the conflict surrounding jurisdiction rights that arose with the abolition of the street commissioner system in 1768. One of the reasons given was based on the spatial logic that the streets in the commoners district belonged to the commoner's townhouses. Another was based on the social class system, in that street spaces were maintained by people of the commoner class and thus, jurisdiction rights over such matters should belong to the town commisioner. Afterwards, a system was established in which street spaces in Edo&rsquo;s samurai and temple/shrine districts were managed by the commissioner of engineering works (fushin-bugyo) while those in the commoners district were administered by the town commissioner.<br>&nbsp;Lastly, the paper concludes with a discussion on further improvements to the management system for street spaces in the commoners district from the period after the town commissioner's jurisdiction right was secured up until the end of the 18^th century. From this, an unnatural assignment of responsibilities becomes apparent, with the commissioner of engineering works responsible for all things related to the functions of the street itself and the town commissioner responsible for everything else. The paper finally points out the fundamental contradictions inherent in a management system based on a spatial framework founded in a social class system.