There are many reasons that Jacobs appealed to me, but the one that really sealed the deal is that she took Japan seriously
most Japanese live in single family detached houses; capsule hotels are just a meme, not common
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the Tokyo metro area is suburbs, old villages, farmland, and conventional cityscapepic.twitter.com/ADkGJ77v5q
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all four of those pics are from suburban Tokyo--in order, Hachioji, Hadano, Kawagoe, and Yokohama
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ergo, it is not a place of mind-blowing density
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dude I've lived there, you're not gonna fool me on this one
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here's Tokyo area (including all the places in the pictures) and NYC area at appx same scalepic.twitter.com/tbxeY3XIW1
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and here is a size comparison with London using http://mapfrappe.com pic.twitter.com/AR9vOiPzhw
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