Re:How Seattle Killed Micro-Housing
by ghaff on Friday September 09, 2016 @07:00AM
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It also doesn't hurt that the Tokyo population has been growing rather slowly--about 0.5% per year.
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Re:How Seattle Killed Micro-Housing
by peterbonney on Friday September 09, 2016 @08:01AM
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Yes, but it is also one of the largest, densest cities in the world, a place it arrived to by growing quickly and expanding its housing stock to match its growth.
And Tokyo also has a great urban transit system etc. On the other hand, a lot of the population growth occurred between 1945 and 1965. [1] So it was starting from an historically low population and housing stock point for obvious reasons and had something of a clean slate.
[1] http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/ABOUT/HISTORY/history03.ht...