Greenbelt Scholar Visits from Japan
A Tokyo professor and two colleagues tour Greenbelt after visiting our sister towns, part of a study begun in 2002.
Yoshiro Morita, an associate professor in the Engineering Department of Architecture at Tokyo Polytechnic Institute, is an Alexis de Tocqueville of Greenbelt. On Labor Day, Sept. 5, Morita and his graduate student Ryohei Hashida and an architect Hiroko Ryu arrived in Greenbelt for several days of research, after touring Greenbelt's sister communities, Greendale, Wis. and Greenhills, Ohio. Morita has been studying Greenbelt since 2002 and visits about once a year. Morita is interested in co-ops as an option for Japan's housing problems because there are no co-ops in Japan currently, he said. During the Labor Day Festival, Morita, Hashida and Ryu toured the Greenbelt Museum with Sandra Lange as a tour guide and then took a walking tour of …
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