Eh, it's not that bad. The colors are kind of washed out in the photo, but there's a ton of green, big parks and stuff. Plus, Tokyo actually has good public transport.
It's not great, but it's defnitely far from the worst excesses of urban planning and sprawl you can see in the US
The thing you have to understand with Japan is that their entire country is mountains with like 3 or 4 actually flat spaces in the whole thing. Those flat spaces are basically all like this, they are the only spaces that can be developed at all and they are this way out of necessity. They have weird geography.
I would think that this level of density is more efficient because all the people are in one spot, no? You only have to bring the resources to one place. All the people that live there would still be living somewhere if the city wasn't like that, but the distribution of resources would require much greater efforts.
Are there not many? I'm not that familiar with how Tokyo is designed, it's hard to tell from the photo. They're definitely fucking up if they're not using the space to build dense housing for sure.
Looks horrible.
How can people think Soviet-style brutalist public housing is bad but somehow think this is better?
Eh, it's not that bad. The colors are kind of washed out in the photo, but there's a ton of green, big parks and stuff. Plus, Tokyo actually has good public transport.
It's not great, but it's defnitely far from the worst excesses of urban planning and sprawl you can see in the US
Yeah definitely less bad than whatever the fuck the US is doing but this will never not be just a huge waste of natural resources.
The thing you have to understand with Japan is that their entire country is mountains with like 3 or 4 actually flat spaces in the whole thing. Those flat spaces are basically all like this, they are the only spaces that can be developed at all and they are this way out of necessity. They have weird geography.
I would think that this level of density is more efficient because all the people are in one spot, no? You only have to bring the resources to one place. All the people that live there would still be living somewhere if the city wasn't like that, but the distribution of resources would require much greater efforts.
Why no apartment buildings though?
Are there not many? I'm not that familiar with how Tokyo is designed, it's hard to tell from the photo. They're definitely fucking up if they're not using the space to build dense housing for sure.
Looks like mostly single family housing to me.
If Tokyo was mostly single family homes it’d be even more impossibly gigantic
Edit - someone else here is saying it actually is; that’s wack
there are plenty of apartment buildings, this photo's extreme altitude flattens everything