Tokyo DIY Gardening Hands-on gardening for a crowded city
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Hand Made Tokyo Download
Download the Hand Made Tokyo document of the 3331 Arts CYD Tokyo mapping workshop we did last summer.
[Map Detail] Tokyo DIY Gardening Workshop
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A small sample of detail images from the Tokyo map created during last August’s Tokyo-DIY-Gardening workshop.
Inviting Totoro to Tokyo
“Inviting Totoro to Tokyo disrupts conventional ideas about daily urban life and offers fresh inspiration for cities’ extraordinary possibilities….”
Replacing Dead Urban Spaces with Living Habitat
Contrary to popular opinion, cities only become devoid of natural life by active suppression…..
Gardening for Strangers in Tokyo
What surprises me still are Tokyo residents’ ingenuity and passion for cultivating plants and community in a crowded, over-built city…..
Collaborative Mental Mapping
Mapping the real and imagined green spaces of a megacity requires all kinds of junk…
“Do You Really Like Living Here?” A Foreigner’s Perspective on Tokyo
I cannot discern if this question expresses national modesty, a sense of inferiority, or ignorance
Tokyo DIY Gardening Interactive Review
“With a single click visitors can plunge from a birds-eye view of Tokyo to street level for a stroll through a tunnel of blooming cherries..”
[CITY FORM] Draft Photo/Text Collage Excerpt
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“..layer by layer, the modern and present-day cities of Tokyo were built…..urban development took place around many scattered nuclei.”
[Photo Update] Tokyo DIY Gardening Workshop
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Some photos from the great map which all the participants created.
[Review] Tokyo DIY Gardening Workshop
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Starting with a plain sheet of paper, with a single green circle upon it (yes the yamanote line) the group began to map out Tokyo….
Why are some neighborhood parks so sad?
Many of Tokyo’s residential neighborhood parks are poorly maintained and under-used……