Nothing more blackpilling than seeing the reaction of American urbanists to Japanese urbanism
depends on how crucial said aspects are to said system--my impression is that short lifespan of housing is a key aspect of Japanese urbanism
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"Do you want this result?" vs "Do you want to do what it takes to get there?"
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Short lifespan is kind of unimportant in my understanding. Japan's real secret sauce is non-local decision making.
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Zoning law is national but all the decisions about applying it are made locally
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If you had asked me, I'd have said Japan's secret sauce is the exact opposite: a high degree of local decision making
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How does "local decision making" lead to building in Japan and gridlock in Berkeley?
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Why don't Japanese cities engage in exclusionary zoning for the rich?
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No one answer that I'm certain of, but a few things here...first is that you don't need to exclude by law what is excluded by price
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Which invites the reverse question: why does Berkeley use zoning to exclude the poor when said poor already can't afford rich neighborhoods?
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