At first glance, with its population of 13 million people (and counting), Tokyo may seem a veritable concrete jungle, replete with tangles of elevated expressways and engineered mega-channels. But one merely needs to take a detour onto a small residential side street to see that the beauty of small-scale nature in the city is very much present.



Seeking to uncover these nooks of lush greenery is Jared Braiterman PhD, design anthropologist and creator of Tokyo Green Space, a unique blog that for over 3 years has become an exhaustive index of the gardens and the gardeners that dot this dense city. Through a combination of anecdotal and academic musings, TGS also acts as a narrative for the dynamic, and at times renegade, spirit of urban gardening in Tokyo.



We satFL School Shooting Survivor: "We Are Going To Be The Kids You Read About In Textbooks"

CNN: Emma Gonzalez, a student at the Parkland, Florida high school where 17 people were left dead after a mass shooting, calls out President Trump and the NRA by name at an anti-gun rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

"The people in the government who were voted into power are lying to us. And us kids seem to be the only ones who notice and our parents to call BS.Companies trying to make caricatures of the teenagers these days, saying that all we are self-involved and trend-obsessed and they hush us into submission when our message doesn't reach the ears of the nation, we are prepared to call BS. Politicians who sit in their gilded