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And that's Osaka. Osaka's population peaked around 2017.[1] The only major city in Japan not on a downtrend is Yokohama, which is in the Greater Tokyo area. Ke
by Animats 8mo ago
And that's Osaka. Osaka's population peaked around 2017.[1] The only major city in Japan not on a downtrend is Yokohama, which is in the Greater Tokyo area.
Keeping up all the infrastructure as the population declines is tough. That's one of the challenges of this century for the developed world.
[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/cities/japan/osaka https://worldpopulationreview.com/cities/japan/osaka
- Pay08 8mo agoWhy is it difficult? I assume the proportion of infrastructure experts would stay the same.
- chmod775 8mo agoBecause you now have more infrastructure than people to pay for and maintain it. As population density decreases, the people that remain are using oversized infrastructure. The relationship between required maintenance and amount of usage is far from linear. For a lot of infrastructure being underused means additional maintenance procedures become necessary. A way to combat this is to move people and condense the population again, abandoning areas in the process and pretty much writing them off. Not optimal, but it'll help.
- Pay08 8mo agoI've assumed that moving people in order to consolidate infrastructure use was already modus operandi in countries that need to worry about these things in the short term, but it makes sense that it doesn't work that way.
- zulban 8mo agoIf your roommates leave your rent doesn't go down. Infrastructure can't be trivially cut in half.