Can Tokyo’s charms be replicated elsewhere?
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Can Tokyo’s charms be replicated elsewhere?
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#5An absolutely amazing city. And fascinating in that in this more collectivist society you have actual individualism whereas most American towns are heavily conformist and enforce this through law.
A curious glimpse into the fact that societies are not simply collectivist or individualist but so or not so across multiple axes.
One thing that I find interesting is how much laws influence these things and how a society moves from growth to preservation.
It seems that societies grow greatly and then settle into a period of stagnation, constantly talking about golden years while actively stifling them in the present - moribund European economies, the erstwhile innovation cities of America.
Curious. You can only create greatness while your populace is weak because once it is strong it seeks the status quo and slow decline - loss aversion trumping exploration.
Ultimately, in some way, cities and states suffer the Innovator's Dilemma too!
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#6The best parts of any city are the places where cars aren't allowed or are minimized/not the primary method of getting around. The most economically productive, high-demand areas of any city are the ones at walking scale where humans enjoy spending their time.
A lot of infrastructure planners work to optimize traffic flow without much consideration to the actual humans existing in an area.
Tokyo doesn't have this problem in its most iconic places, as it largely relies on rail and subway for mass transit.
Of course, that's not to say that Japan isn't car-oriented. It is in a lot of places, it's more car-oriented than most people assume.
Still, Japan is a place where you rarely hear of any foreign tourist renting a car.
A fun way to visualize how bad cars are for a city is comparing train bridge and tunnel productivity to car lanes. You would need 24 Manhattan-bound traffic lanes to match the throughput of the Manhattan Bridge, [1] and then you'd need a whole bunch of other unproductive, human-hostile space to fit all the off-ramps and road junctions needed to make that concept functional.
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Submitting the original URL is the rule, providing an archived version for the convenience of others is going the extra mile.
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Submitting the original URL is the rule, providing an archived version for the convenience of others is going the extra mile.
Sure, but when the last 10 comments made are archive links on submitted articles, it seems like it's just an account to farm internet points. I guess I just don't understand what the point is?
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Submitting the original URL is the rule, providing an archived version for the convenience of others is going the extra mile.
Sure, but when the last 10 comments made are archive links on submitted articles, it seems like it's just an account to farm internet points. I guess I just don't understand what the point is?
To share interesting content with people, no?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Submitting the original URL is the rule, providing an archived version for the convenience of others is going the extra mile.
Sure, but when the last 10 comments made are archive links on submitted articles, it seems like it's just an account to farm internet points. I guess I just don't understand what the point is?
Because otherwise a lot of us can't even read the stories.