Keitaro Ito

Keitaro is Professor at Kyushu Institute of Technology and teaches landscape ecology and design. Currently, he studies at University of Florida as a Fulbright scholar. He has been designing urban parks, river bank, school garden and forest parks. He has studied and worked in Japan,the U.K., and Germany. He is interested in ecological landscape design. Keitaro lives in Fukutsu-city in the southern part of Japan. For the past 15 years, he has been interested in nature restoration in urban areas, river restoration, gardens in primary schools, forest parks, and urban parks. He sometimes enjoys longboard surfing and walking in the mountains outside of the city - this is one of the important reasons to think about nature preservation and restoration. Books(Editor): "Urban Biodiversity and Ecological Design for Sustainable Cities", Springer (2021), Books (Chapter): “Children, Nature, Cities”,Routledge, NY (2016), “Designing Low Carbon Societies in Landscapes”, Springer,Germany (2014), “Landscape design and biodiversity”, Wiley Blackwell,U.K. (2010).