one of my chief problems w the car dependence thing is that you only can use ONE mode of travel no matter what kind of trip you're making (and God help u if u don't have a car); I don't want to repeat the mistake with another mode (except--MAYBE--walking)
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so with a city like Tokyo, did they wind up with a neighborhood that looks so loose and organic because nobody really was looking to plan out the development in advance?
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yes--what you're looking at is what started out as runaway unplanned suburban sprawl in the 40s~60s (iirc), in which new buildings kept being added and old ones redeveloped, iterating again and again over decades
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modern Japanese suburbs, like American ones, may lack coordination *between* particular developments, but are at least rigorously planned (street widths, setbacks, etc) *within* each one
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