• Cort@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    The tiny hole in the wall places that Japan’s zoning laws permit are soooo cool. Like 4 chairs in the whole place and 2 are reserved for regulars. They’re like studio apartments, but it’s a restaurant.

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      13 days ago

      Post american revolution v2, I’d love to see our zoning laws disappear to make way for things like this

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        13 days ago

        If the US got rid of zoning laws our cities wouldn’t look like Tokyo, they’d look like Dallas. And believe me, one Dallas is more than enough.

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            I think the only rule they had when “planning” Dallas was “there are no rules”. Zero zoning rules means one giant skyscraper in the middle of a mile of strip malls, multiple city “centers”, vast areas of it are competely unwalkable due to lack of sidewalks and/or what are basically highways running through them, and no mass transit to speak of. It’s like they took 5 shitty, small cities and glued them together with more shitty city material.

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            12 days ago

            I’m in Dallas and it fucking sucks, tons of suburban sprawl, tons of roads but public transit is barely functional and hard to design efficiently, a lot of the roads don’t even have sidewalks or they just randomly end, the roads are designed in a way that promotes aggressive driving making it even more dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians, the local business scene here is depressing outside of restaurants and entertainment but there’s like 20 Walmarts.

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                12 days ago

                this one will load

                the house sizes and spacing between houses is highly correlated to the girth of an average citizen.

                So everything is as it should be and your eyes cannot unsee that

                Get on the treadmill would solve the urban sprawl

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                13 days ago

                dang… it’s just this: My guess is that the person originally mentioning Dallas is contrasting the city’s suburban sprawl and lack of public transit to Tokyo’s urban density and bustling nightlife.