This is what I mean: "oh, Japan is so unique we could never learn anything from them" Japan got where it is today by imitating others! https://twitter.com/Graf_von_Dienen/status/902218492707004416 …
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They borrowed technology, practices, institutions which could all have been argues as only functioning w/in specific context...
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...and in doing so, adapted them to fit their own contexts. Any imitation on our part today would work out the same way!
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If they had relied only on their past experiences, they would never have modernized. If they had insisted on "greenfield" ideas...
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...that is, making up modernization for themselves instead of imitating modern countries, they would ALSO have never modernized.
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American urbanists today seem largely stuck between those two: either limit our actions to things we've tried before...
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...or pin our hopes on some untested ideas that may never materialize at all (hi Elon). We're allergic to learning by example.
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It's difficult to imagine things you can't experience first hand
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For sure--we need exchange programs!
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