Tokyo place accretes through gardening; A conjunctive patchwork of “locales whose form, function, and meaning are self-contained within permeable and porous boundaries of physical contiguity” – An eclectic mix which serves as a check on the depersonalization of life and culture, invoking the variety and possibility that belong to the very structure of human existence. And, while not necessarily a community something that contributes to community-building – nurturing of a constituency or culture – and the preservation of the common environment through the confirmation of feelings, lifestyles and pleasures in the everyday humanly scaled and personally comprehensible environment…….. Read on This Big City