Green Island Project

While Tokyo does have more greenery than other areas in Japan, it still could do with even more green - would be awesome if Tokyo looked like this. Probably not practical but would be very nice to walk on barefooted on a warm spring day. More pics at Green Island with details by litokid below.

Original text from litokid below.

Tokyo is one of the best examples of urban development in the world - or should it be "worse"? You've got skyscrapers everywhere, traffic, and crowded pedestrian sidewalks. Everything's paved and grey.

So what if all that pavement and asphalt was replaced with grass?

The Green Island project photoshopped pictures of urban Tokyo and replaced all those roads and sidewalks with manicured lawn. The project is a collaboration involving creative director Tag (Taguchi Ryo), photo retoucher IMKW (Imakawa), and contemporary artist cum coder Immr (Imamura Yuichiro). There's only 12 pictures, but it's quite interesting. The above is a picture of Shinjuku.

It certainly isn't practical, but it gets their point across - we need more green in general. Downtown Tokyo never looked prettier.

Found on CScout Japan as well as Gizmodo.