World Urban Parks ジャパンWorld Urban Parks ジャパン

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Cities are facing unprecedented challenges – world-wide pandemic, unemployment, reduced revenues, budget cuts and reduced services, extraordinary park usage, and longstanding social unrest as a result of inequities across many sectors of society. These challenges require new ways of thinking, decision making and investment of public funds. Public parks and recreation services can lead the way to address these challenges.
In this session, Symposium attendees will learn how to revitalize park systems with equitable investments using data-driven and transparent decision-making based on Minneapolis and Pittsburgh’s equitable investment initiatives. Minneapolis has been implementing its equitable investment strategies since 2017 and attendees will learn about the impacts of those investments over the past 3 years. Symposium attendees will also hear about the work done in both cities to get residents outdoors safely during the pandemic, the results from those strategies and the impacts of park usage during the pandemic.

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Astronauts are required to live in isolation within enclosed spaces. Moreover, in order to prevent the rapid deterioration of their health in a zero-gravity environment, they have to engage in daily physical exercise while making use of such limited spaces. In order to make space travel safer and realize missions to more distant destinations, it is essential to improve the quality of life in outer space, including both its physical and mental aspects. Research in the field of space medicine has greatly helped us to better understand the way our sedentary lifestyles and high-stress society result in lifestyle-related diseases and accelerated aging. This session introduces the current state and challenges of human space exploration in order to consider what environmental conditions are necessary for human life.

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‘Green infrastructure’ is an approach of utilising ecosystem functions to solve various social problems. What policies can we devise to best make use of ecosystem functions towards urban resilience, create seamless connections between green spaces, and facilitate communication between people by sharing green spaces? In order to consider the future of park management, this session examines liveable and sustainable community development practices in which parks bridge the gap between private and public sectors and between different standpoints and fields of practice.

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In this thought-provoking and often challenging talk, Dan Raven-Ellison will share why he thinks many cities around the world should be transformed into National Park Cities. Founder of the campaign that led to London becoming the world’s first National Park City in 2019, Dan believes that by taking inspiration from rural National Parks we can make life better in cities. As well as sharing experiences from London, Dan will ask “what if your city was a National Park City?” and explain the key steps to become one.

Coodinator

Fujio Hirata
Professor, Graduate School of Landscape Design and Management, University of Hyogo

Commentator

Tsutomu Bessho
Registered Landscape Architect, Senior Associate, James Corner Field Operations.

Panelists

Ryu Ono
Director, World Urban Parks/ Director, World Urban Parks Japan/
President, Park Management Laboratory Co., Ltd.
Dan Raven-Ellison
London National Park City Founder
Rumi Sato
Executive Director, NPO birth/ Representative Director, Green Connection TOKYO