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On walls and rooftops, vertical green spaces blend artistry with sustainability

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Much of the Azabudai Hills shopping complex in Tokyo is devoted to planted elevated areas. (All photos by Stephen Mansfield)

TOKYO — Perhaps it is a law of spatial gravity that when you cannot go out, you go up. What has long held true for urban architecture is now being applied to gardens, with Japanese landscape designers increasingly eager to requisition rooftops and walls to create gardens at higher elevations.

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