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Despite the down votes this is a perfectly valid point. In the last 100 years Kyoto has turned from a quiet backwater into a city of over 1 million, liberally
by jpatokal 8y ago
Despite the down votes this is a perfectly valid point. In the last 100 years Kyoto has turned from a quiet backwater into a city of over 1 million, liberally slathered in concrete like every other Japanese city. This will have an impact on the local climate, above and beyond global warming as a whole.
- asynchronous13 8y agoThe population of Kyoto has been over 1 million since 1932.
- edflsafoiewq 8y agoIt was also hardly a backwater... The Fall of Edo was only 150 years ago and before that Kyoto was the seat of the Emperor.
- sandworm101 8y agoNot a political or historical backwater, but also not the booming metropolis that was Tokyo. It was a backwater in terms of urbanization and urban heat island impacts.
- surreality 8y ago>quiet backwater Wow. Kyoto was the capital of Japan for close to a millennium.
- jpatokal 8y agoYes, but it stopped being the seat of power in 1603 and even the Emperor moved to Tokyo in 1868. The point, though, is not the politics, but that modern Kyoto bears very little resemblance to pre-1900 Kyoto.