http://anthemmagazine.com/rss/story/601 Content view for all categories en http://anthemmagazine.com/story/601 <!--paging_filter--><p>Guerrilla gardening in densely-populated cities seems to be a hip new way to fight urbanization and sprawling growth. It's prettier than getting a bunch of hippies together to sit in a tree, protesting its removal, anyway. </p> <p>Guerrilla gardening efforts have occurred all around the world (check <a href="http://guerrillagardening.org/" target="_new">GuerrillaGardening.org</a> for proof and more information), but we've never seen such a project sprout in Tokyo... until now. </p> <p><a href="http://www.kirainet.com/english/" target="_new">Kirai</a> (one hell of an amazing English-language blog from Japan) recently reported on a certain <a href="http://www.kirainet.com/english/making-good-use-of-a-little-corner/" target="_new">guerrilla gardener in the massive metropolis</a>, and while the sight is nothing <em>new</em>, per se, the dichotomy and symbolism (tiny woman vs. gigantic industrial mass) is pretty spectacular in its own right. <a href="http://www.kirainet.com/english/making-good-use-of-a-little-corner/" target="_new">Get the full Kirai scoop</a>.</p> http://anthemmagazine.com/story/601#comments gardening life &amp; politics Life_Politics Tokyo Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:54:48 -0700 nik.mercer 601 at http://anthemmagazine.com