The Secret to Japan’s Great Cities

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References & Further Reading

Life Where I’m From – Why Japan Looks the Way it Does: Zoning

Machizukuri
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Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks
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Stroads
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Japan’s worst traffic is NOT in Tokyo – Okinawa
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Chapters

0:00 Intro
0:56 What makes a Japanese Street?
2:15 Japanese Zoning
4:26 Local Planning – Machizukuri
5:11 Solving Traffic Congestion
7:08 Financially Sustainable Cities
7:57 Different Sizes of Streets
9:17 Traffic Calming & Slower Cars
10:26 Reducing Car Volumes
11:24 Road Design
11:52 Good Pedestrian Bridges?
13:41 No Street Parking
15:31 Off-Street Parking
17:06 Stopping & Unloading
17:38 Kei Cars & Key Trucks
19:36 Cycling without Bike Lanes
21:44 Bicycle Paring
24:49 Horrible Roads & Stroads
25:57 Car-Centric Japan
28:00 Oversized, Empty Roads
19:56 Destroying Great Neighbourhoods for Cars
31:30 The Reality of Japanese Cities
32:45 80,000 Hours

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