It's incredible how low housing prices are in Japan too. It's really taken a lot of the sting out of their economic stagnation. That's one thing they've figured out. Build out of wood, don't build to last, tear a building down every few decades and build it back bigger and denser
Urbanism being coded left of center should be great since over 90% of city governments are governed by democrats. Sure state governments can get in the way, but if California and NY instituted Japanese style zoning laws, we’d have 3 Tokyos in 50 years. The problem is that having Japanese style zoning laws takes less government interference, and Democratic politicians tend to no believe that less regulation solves any problem.
It's incredible how low housing prices are in Japan too. It's really taken a lot of the sting out of their economic stagnation. That's one thing they've figured out. Build out of wood, don't build to last, tear a building down every few decades and build it back bigger and denser
Urbanism being coded left of center should be great since over 90% of city governments are governed by democrats. Sure state governments can get in the way, but if California and NY instituted Japanese style zoning laws, we’d have 3 Tokyos in 50 years. The problem is that having Japanese style zoning laws takes less government interference, and Democratic politicians tend to no believe that less regulation solves any problem.
Fair points, although I tend to think it’s the American suburbs that are most desperately in need of better urbanism.