By "trad woes" I mainly mean the rampant disease that afflicted premodern cities, as cited in the article
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Disasters are one way to "reset" a city ecosystem and allow it to rebuild with more modern techniques, but the less catastrophic way...
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...is just to not get very attached to most buildings, and *expect* them to be replaced within a few decades. Which--again--Japan does.
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You can see that philosophy present in the Grand Shrine at Ise, which is ritually destroyed and rebuilt every 20 years.
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Did you watch the same documentary I just watched?
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hahaha, probably not--but this is something I think about a lot
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