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European warfare repeatedly destroyed valuable buildings "made to last 500 years" culminating in mass bombing in the Second World War. Meanwhile, super-advanced
by mistrial9 4y ago
European warfare repeatedly destroyed valuable buildings "made to last 500 years" culminating in mass bombing in the Second World War. Meanwhile, super-advanced Japan builds houses that are expected to be torn down in less than 100 years, with a very different history of public destruction in the name of War.
- paulryanrogers 4y agoJapan may be too far on the disposable end. Apparently buying used is a bad thing so they rebuild every 20 years or so.
- BlargMcLarg 4y agoThat depends entirely on the specifics. The Japanese aren't so crazy they'd toss good buildings to the fishes once they hit the 20 years. They just don't put the same value on old building materials as Europeans and North Americans do.
- byw 4y agoMy guess is that due to earthquakes and typhoons, there's a lot more pressure to keep building codes up-to-date with state of the art. In North America so much of how we build is dictated by traditions.
- i_am_proteus 4y agoJapan is subject to regular severe earthquakes. Most of Europe is not.