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Re:Tokyo: A big city that is also pleasant to live in by throwaway2037 on Saturday January 01, 2022 @07:59AM (#29757936)
New York City proper (five boroughs) has a population of 8.4 million. Sweden has a population of 10.35 million. But yes, I agree with your sentiment about having high density of manufacturing in a particular segment will probably skew your policies towards it. This might explain why Munich is so rich, but has such poor mass transit compared to Berlin.

What surprises me more is that big Japanese cities like Tokyo and Osaka chose to build enormous rail networks (above and below ground) instead of wide, fast boulevards and raised expressways.

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Re:Tokyo: A big city that is also pleasant to live in by dustintrex on Saturday January 01, 2022 @09:17AM (#29758416)
Tokyo has an extensive network of raised expressways. They're just so extortionately priced (roughly $1/km) that nobody uses them unless they really have to, but since Tokyo is so crowded, they're jam-packed all the time anyway.

https://www.japanistry.com/shuto-expressway-explained/

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Re:Tokyo: A big city that is also pleasant to live in by cjblomqvist on Saturday January 01, 2022 @09:24AM (#29758474)
I was thinking of NYC metropolitan area w/ 20 million in population :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area
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