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    1. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 17

      Vacant lot in Springfield vs typical development in Tokyo's Nerima wardpic.twitter.com/lQpvHdBL95

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    2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 17

      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

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    3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 17

      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...

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    4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 17

      Side by side in streetviewpic.twitter.com/feIqW1LmvS

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    5. Dedicating Ruckus‏ @ded_ruckus Jul 17
      Replying to @380kmh

      Funny how (to me) Tokyo looks way worse from above, but way better from street-level. Obvious which one you should prioritize, but I could see how city planners would get fooled, looking down at a map.

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    6. Thomas The Wank Engine‏ @W4nk_3ngine Jul 18
      Replying to @ded_ruckus @380kmh

      To be fair, the only way Springfield would ever look good from street level again will require some sort of thermonuclear weapon. For a better comparison, look at somewhere more comparable to Japan's average prosperity level like Somerville, Arlington, Brookline, or Cambridge.

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    7. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 18
      Replying to @W4nk_3ngine @ded_ruckus

      sure, I was just struck by how many houses could fit on that vacant lot when I was out inspecting bus stops in the area--that's what prompted the tweet

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    8. Thomas The Wank Engine‏ @W4nk_3ngine Jul 18
      Replying to @380kmh @ded_ruckus

      All snarking aside, what's fascinating to me is the utterly insane volume of wasted/underutilized space in the hundreds of large cities here that have been left behind by the new urbanism boom, particularly in light of the skyrocketing real estate costs in the ones that haven't.

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      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 18
      Replying to @W4nk_3ngine @ded_ruckus

      the wasted space (and its contribution to overall impoverishment) in our stagnant cities is definitely on my mind a lot--but it's not surprising that high real estate costs in other cities haven't changed things for them...

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        2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 18
          Replying to @380kmh @W4nk_3ngine @ded_ruckus

          ...mainly because they're just too far away to benefit from places which are still thriving--they only *work* when they have functional economies of their own

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        3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 18
          Replying to @380kmh @W4nk_3ngine @ded_ruckus

          it's like that tedious cliche about "why do Americans need to build dense when we have S P A C E" as if all the acreage in, say, Wyoming makes an ounce of a difference to people trying to live and work in, say, Boston

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        4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 18
          Replying to @380kmh @W4nk_3ngine @ded_ruckus

          Or for that matter, all the acreage in WESTERN MASS vis-a-vis the people trying to live and work in Boston

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        2. Thomas The Wank Engine‏ @W4nk_3ngine Jul 18
          Replying to @380kmh @ded_ruckus

          I think the higher costs ARE changing things for them, but just that it's a highly uneven and fairly slow process. Just look at Boston --> Quincy/Malden/Worcester/Salem/Portsmouth/Nashua/Portland, and even that's a poor example just because Boston has so many satellites.

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        3. Thomas The Wank Engine‏ @W4nk_3ngine Jul 18
          Replying to @W4nk_3ngine @380kmh @ded_ruckus

          But yeah, it's all about proximity, and small cities that are more than 1-1.5 hours from their regional hub but aren't big enough to sustain urban renewal on their own are fucked.

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        4. Thomas The Wank Engine‏ @W4nk_3ngine Jul 18
          Replying to @W4nk_3ngine @380kmh @ded_ruckus

          But that doesn't mean it's not happening. Just look at DC spilling over into Baltimore and Richmond, or Chicago spilling over into Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Grand Rapids, or the gentrification of the small cities in the Texas triangle, and you'll see what I mean.

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        5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Jul 18
          Replying to @W4nk_3ngine @ded_ruckus

          sure--some cities can still benefit, but those are usually the ones close enough to "orbit" the regional hub

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