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>but the most obvious one is that Japan is eminently walkable, while the US is so pedestrian-unfriendly Japan is also extremely tiny compared to the US. Japan
by edm0nd 2y ago
>but the most obvious one is that Japan is eminently walkable, while the US is so pedestrian-unfriendly
Japan is also extremely tiny compared to the US.
Japan is also something like ~70% mountainous where things cant even be built.
It also helps a lot with planning/building if parts of your country were bombed into oblivion and gave you a chance to rebuild and rethink everything from the ground up.
- pezezin 2y ago> It also helps a lot with planning/building if parts of your country were bombed into oblivion and gave you a chance to rebuild and rethink everything from the ground up. Hahaha, now this is a good joke. Japanese cities are notoriously chaotic and urban planning is almost non-existant; my guess is that they didn't rethink anything, they just rebuilt everything in a hurry, and afterwards, shoganai.