Tokyo Green Space

Tokyo green space is a website run by a design anthropologist living in Tokyo. The website is devoted to pictures and writing to do with nature and public space in Tokyo. Tokyo Green Space focuses on how resident's of the world's largest city make the most of a poorly planned and dense city by gardening in the smallest of places. There is a growing awareness that making maximum use of public space in cities has tremendous human and environmental benefits. On the website are examples of misused or wasted public space as well as examples and testimonials to the environmental, economical, and education benefits of trading unused concrete for soil and plants. I thought this was an interesting find because it urges a new use of urban space, claiming that this will allow people to become more connected to the naturalness to their surroundings. 




-Hannah Andrew