Vacant lot in Springfield vs typical development in Tokyo's Nerima wardpic.twitter.com/lQpvHdBL95
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Vacant lot in Springfield vs typical development in Tokyo's Nerima wardpic.twitter.com/lQpvHdBL95
Hilarious part to me is that the house in the upper left corner of the Springfield pic is about the same size as the ones in the Tokyo pic. Could fit 25 such houses on that vacant lot easily, but have an American design it and you'd only fit about 6
I mean damn just look at the difference in road widths--granted Boston Road is a major arterial, but there's still the parking lot access road etc...
Remember that we have a huge housing problem in our major cities, prices sky-high w very little development...allowing development with narrower roads and smaller setbacks could put tons of new units on the market
Remember, ppl don't usually stay forever in the first house they buy! How many more would be able to start down the road of homeownership if we built like this? Crazy to make people wait for their own roof over their head until they can pay for the yard at the same time...
The maddeningly infuriating part is that if you packed housing 4x closer, then your metro shrinks to 1/4 the size.... If you don't want to be that packed in then you could have your acreage in the country AND still be closer to downtown than you currently are in suburbs!
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