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https://twitter.com/arram/status/1306044610746052608
20K new units in NYC in a year.
142K new units in Tokyo in a year.
Tokyo is a city of 14M people, 37M in the metro. Virtually no free scrap of land exists in the city. Grew by 1.6M people since 2000. And still they BUILD BUILD BUILD BUILD BUILD and prices are going down.
142K new units in Tokyo in a year.
Tokyo is a city of 14M people, 37M in the metro. Virtually no free scrap of land exists in the city. Grew by 1.6M people since 2000. And still they BUILD BUILD BUILD BUILD BUILD and prices are going down.
BUT WHAT ABOUT NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER????
Tokyo has approximately 30 times the actual interesting neighborhood character as any of the neighborhoods that American NIMBYs try to freeze in time.
Turns out if you *let them build*, cool original artistic inspiring urbanism happens.
Tokyo has approximately 30 times the actual interesting neighborhood character as any of the neighborhoods that American NIMBYs try to freeze in time.
Turns out if you *let them build*, cool original artistic inspiring urbanism happens.
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