Research & reports

Yuzo Uchida · Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan · Japan

This study aims to clarify the situation and types of community farms in Japan, their usage patterns, and their impact on the lives of urban residents. It notes the strong demand for community farms for cultivating vegetables and flowers among urban residents. Various types of community farms exist, including allotment gardens, Japanese Kleingartens, self-supplying community farms, and full-scale orchards in the countryside.

和彦 武内, 洋一 松木 · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · Japan

The available abstract for this 1987 Japanese paper consists only of a repository description (the University of Tokyo's institutional repository, UTokyo Repository) rather than the paper's content, so no findings, methods, or data about farmland's green-space value or the role of urban agriculture can be reported from it.

Yoshiharu OKAMOTO, Tsuyoshi Yoneda, Zyunichi Tamazaki · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · Japan

This study investigated the actual conditions of school gardens at 77 primary schools in Osaka City, Japan. Based on the findings, it designed a model plan for creating school gardens in urban primary schools; the average garden area was 956 sq m, and the average utilization rate (garden area relative to available space) was 37.1% — figures the study characterizes as insufficient both in space and in tree variety for maintaining trees as teaching materials — and it examines how to most effectively use the limited available space given these constraints.