Urban Resilience: A Study of Leftover Spaces and Play in Dense City Fabric

Cities worldwide are urgently moving towards a more resilient and sustainable future. On this quest, national, regional, local governments apply combination of socio-spatial tools that regenerate transform the city’s leftover spaces. There is an abundance community gardens, cultural centers, large-scale urban developments that, through programmed activities, reactivate underused The bearers process professionals individuals who have become aware their actions in contemporary landscape. This paper highlights possible design strategies domesticate spaces diverse scales by injecting creative playful programs, using Tokyo as paradigmatic case study. More so than other global metropolises, city represents living laboratory for experimentation due to its compactness variety patterns. Its demonstrate how play positively affects everyday life public spaces, it enables extraordinary uses. A ethnographic observations spatial analysis applied trans-disciplinary method. approach allows understanding people use playfulness transform, appropriate, utilize which serves guidance planners designers.