Re:The $3500 Shirt – A History Lesson in Economics
by IndianAstronaut on Sunday January 25, 2015 @02:03AM
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Nimbys are strong in SF and prevent building up. Tokyo, which has a similar earthquake problem has built up.
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Re:The $3500 Shirt – A History Lesson in Economics
by jpatokal on Sunday January 25, 2015 @07:59AM
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Not really. Japan's "sunlight laws" make it really hard to go above around three stories or so, meaning that nearly all of Tokyo's skyscrapers are concentrated in a few hot spots with commercial zoning (Shinjuku, Marunouchi) plus a few mega-developments like Roppongi Hills where the developer could pull enough strings to buy a large chunk of land and bulldoze their way to an exception.
Of course, compared to Silicon Valley, even the suburbs of Tokyo are indeed densely packed -- but then, Tokyo also crams in something on the order of 7x more people into the same area.