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Human(e) Aspects of Tokyo - Chris Berthelsen

(via Tokyo street gardeners are rule breakers | Tokyo Green Space)

They not only built them for themselves but also maintained comfortable standards of living in them; none of them were “homeless.” Soon enough, I was persuading myself that we who can only sell, buy, let, or rent houses should be the ones labelled “homeless.”

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雑司ヶ谷フォトウォーク2014夏 2014年7月26日 by Tokutomi Masaki on Flickr.

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豊栄荘北棟 by m-louis on Flickr.

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Now available in print 12”x12” at http://ow.ly/sIIpi. A photographic catalog of 60 sites, including 84 parks and gardens, in the city of Berlin, Germany. A look at Berlin’s beautiful urban green places.

Making Room: Azby Brown, Future Design Institute, Tokyo (by chpcny)

Protect seedlings with laundry nets: On an early morning walk from Nakano station on the Chuo line through to Shinjuku we came across this simple and effective use of a 100 Yen laundry net used to protect seedlings from insects, birds and whatever other dangerous elements the street may bring.

This solution is a great illustration of the inventive and strongly practical use/reuse of a familiar and cheap mass-produced item in urban gardening.

(via Tokyo DIY Gardening » Archive » Protect your Seedlings)

#laundry nets #nakano #tokyo

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(via Bernard Rudofsky: Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture (1964) — Monoskop Log)

Out of season (and plastic) fox face attached to a tree with twist ties add a splash of colour to a central Harajuku street.

Materials: Twist Ties, Fruit Location: Harajuku, Tokyo

Lesson: Ignore the seasons – Make an organic collage!

(via Tokyo DIY Gardening » Archive » Organic Decoration)

#twist-ties #fruit #harajuku #tokyo

In order to make use of the entire frontage of the breeze block wall two solutions are implemented.

(1) A long length of sturdy electrical cord is threaded through the openings in the blocks, and pots are hung off the slack. (2) Wire is twisted around the openings in the breeze blocks, with pots hung directly in front. A simple, yet novel way to address this common issue. Magnificent.

(via Tokyo DIY Gardening » Archive » Hanging Pots off a Breeze Block Wall)

#electrical cord #wire

Bitter melon tunnel in Tokyo: This goya is being trained up and over the pathway in front of the apartment building to the balcony of a first floor apartment.

I like the way that the owner has not only appropriated the patch of earth in front of her residence but also created a physical (and visible to all) connection between the two.

(via Tokyo DIY Gardening » Archive » Young Goya Tunnel)

#Akishima #plastic twine

Tokyo deadspace care and attachment: This is the rubbish drop-off point across the road from my apartment complex. A grimey metal shed, with a tiny triangle of weeds and scrub at its southern end, at the point where a side road breaks off from the main thoroughfare. It has been roped off informally and appears unloved and lacking purpose – we feel grateful that it has not turned into a dumping ground for rubbish that cannot be disposed of free of charge.

Every late summer/early autumn, however, the local woman across the street who ‘holds the keys’ to the rubbish drop-off point takes charge and creates a bright spot of color in this dead space, as well as down the side of a couple of nearby buildings and a few other pockets. Her motivation comes from simply wanting to brighten the space up – she has lived in the area for a long time and as she is the caretaker of the rubbish point her sphere of concern has come to stretch the 30 metres from her house up the road to mine.

(via Tokyo DIY Gardening » Archive » Deadspace Care and Attachment)

#akishima #tokyo

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