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Is the end of the article behind a paywall? The only two arguments I read are 1) skyscrapers are growing quicker than 3 other cities, and 2) it happens to conta
by charles_f 3y ago
Is the end of the article behind a paywall? The only two arguments I read are 1) skyscrapers are growing quicker than 3 other cities, and 2) it happens to contain the author's favorite cocoa shop. Surely I'm missing the bottom of it.
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- charles_f 3y agoOk, so that's the full article. I think it's a bit short on explaining why Tokyo is replacing Paris. I fully honour the author's preference. There are so many ways of judging a city, and looking at cocoa bars and speed of building construction seem very arbitrary to me. Are we talking about travelling? Living? A mix of both? I can imagine that some of the similarities with Paris could be the size, a certain authenticity and history mixed with modernity, some kind of atmosphere, a food culture, lots of tourists amd crazy busy transportation systems? I've never been to Tokyo, so it's hard for me to judge. But I've lived in Paris for a few years. Beautiful city to visit, atrocious to live in (by my standards, I know lots of people love it there, but also 3/4 of my friends kept explaining how they hated it there and would move, without acting on it... How Parisian!). This pretty much cured me against large cities. I can imagine that you can do much better in livability, maybe that's what Tokyo achieved?