
With generous support from the Council on Foreign Relation’s Hitachi fellowship, Tokyo Green Space examines the potential for micro-green spaces to transform the world’s largest city into an urban forest that supports bio-diversity, the environment, and human community.
米外交問題評議会 (The Council on Foreign Relation)の日立財団による寛大な研究奨学金に支えられ、「Tokyo Green Space: 東京の小さな緑」プロジェクトは小さな緑の集まりが東京を都会の森へと転換していく可能性について探求していきます。「都会の森 (urban forest)」とは生物多様性、エコロジーな環境、そして人の共同体を包括して支えることの出来る空間です。
Tokyo Green Space examines how corporations and governments can empower ordinary gardeners to improve urban ecology in Tokyo and around the world. Micro green spaces connect people to the environment and to each other. Tokyo Green Space draws from and contributes to questions about public and private space, urban planning, global urbanization and development, public health, bio-diversity, climate change, energy independence, and the environment.
「東京の小さな緑」は、企業や政府機関がどのように東京住民の緑化運動やエコ運動に力を与えられるかについて研究するプロジェクトです。街の小さな緑の空間をもっと作ることで、都市全体の環境緑地を増やし、緑の空間を通して住民がお互いにもっとつながっていけるのでは。公共・私有の空間、都市計画、世界的規模の都市化現象、公衆衛生、生物多様性、気候変動、エネルギーの自給計画などの問題から課題を得るだけでなく、新しいアイデアをどんどん提供していきたいと考えています。
Tokyo Green Space will include a year of fieldwork with ordinary Tokyo gardeners, interviews with city and ward urban planners, real estate companies, construction companies, multinational corporations, architects, landscape designers, environmental non-profits, garden societies, educators, scientists, and a wide range of urban futurists.
研究の大事な活動のひとつは、小さな緑の空間を作っている住民の方たち、東京都市計画に直接携わっている人たち、不動産会社、土木建築会社、多国籍企業、環境問題に関わる非営利目的団体、建築家、造園・ランドスケープ設計家、園芸協会、教育関係施設、科学者、そういった広い範囲に渡り、一緒に都市エコロジーについて考えていくことです。
Tokyo Green Space was founded by Jared Braiterman PhD, a Harvard and Stanford trained design anthropologist working in urban ecology, clean tech, venture funding, and business innovation. For more information, please see
http://jaredresearch.com/about/jared.html
Your input is most welcome.

Posted by Lia on March 21, 2009 at 6:46 am
Yes, green courtin can cool down, and also in this way they will have no more sun light, and so they need much electrical power to have light, when the sun can do this for free, also healthier for the eyes.
Where is then the advantage ? 4 degree cooler, but much electrical power to make light and danger for the workers eyes ?
Posted by jessiedog on March 22, 2009 at 5:16 am
How interesting to see little flowers growing in a crack in the sidewalk
And, how interesting to see a photo of a “green curtain”.
Posted by Fred Harriman on March 28, 2009 at 1:47 am
I LOVE this! This is what I love about Japan. It’s great to take a walk or jog around the neighborhood and check out what people have growing in pots and cracks and God knows where. I’m in the US now and I would love to see more of this!
Posted by Britton on April 11, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Jared, Huge congrats on this. I can’t wait to learn more about your “moss entrepreneur” connection. Sounds right up my alley!
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Posted by Joseph Tame on May 25, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Jared, what a wonderful site. What a wonderful project.
Truly inspiring.
I’ve done my best to create my own little greenspace on our little balcony in Meguro – even just a few herbs and a pineapple plant do wonders for the spirit.
I’d very much like to meet you and possibly do a special green podcast about this project. Fantastic stuff.
Joseph
Posted by Mie on May 27, 2009 at 4:41 am
Hi, I tried emailing about reposting a picture and your banner to introduce your blog – which I love – on my blog. I basically wanted to know if that’s OK, and if there are permission issues, please let me know.
Cheers,
M
Posted by tal goldstein on June 25, 2009 at 11:27 am
I have spent 6 month in Kyoto last year. the most unexpected experience I’ve had was to reveal the huge gardening potential of every pavement, road-sides, tiny balconies etc… I have some nice photos if you would like.
coming back home- I’ve realize I can not explain this idea to others, as the way people treat common areas at my country is so different.
They don’t realize the fact that the fence of their small garden is also an obstacle/imaginary boarder.
finding this website is great! thanks.