Urban Agricultural Activities in Residential Neighborhood with a Mixture of Agricultural Land in Tokyo Suburbs
摘要
Involving city dwellers in urban agricultural (UA) activities, such as farming at allotment gardens and shopping at farmers’ markets, provides valuable ecosystem services. There have been reported mismatches between the supply and demand of these services, highlighting the need for understanding where people access them in urban context. This chapter aims to enhance our understanding of city dwellers’ potential access to ecosystem services in UA activities, focusing on Tokyo’s unique landscape of residential neighborhood with a mixture of agricultural land. The chapter covers the following topics: (1) tracing the two historical phases of urban growth and urban maturity that has shaped Tokyo’s unique landscape, and (2) mapping the access of city dwellers to UA activities on the neighborhood scale, using case studies of allotment gardens and communal and individual farmers’ markets. Based on these analyses, we propose a nexus-based management that aligns supply and demand, integrating the priorities of both the agriculture and housing sectors to address urban sustainability.