Human Scale

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The concept of "human scale" is most known in urban design and architecture, but it provides a good framework to think about a lot of different aspects of our lives.

This community can be the place in this hyper-connected world to display and cherish the things that are not.

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‘The waters become corrupt, the air infected’: here’s how Ancient Greeks and Romans grappled with environmental damage (theconversation.com)
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What Do Van Halen & Brown M&M's Have To Do With Safety? (www.safetydimensions.com.au)
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Scale Ruins Everything (coldwaters.substack.com)
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Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law (sohl-dickstein.github.io)
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Report Shows Why Cities Must Build Safe Bike Lanes (usa.streetsblog.org)
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The Department of Energy Wants You to Know Your Conservation Efforts Are Making a Difference (www.mcsweeneys.net)
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Activating Community Spaces Through Events and Positive Habits (www.strongtowns.org)
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Swimmable Cities (www.swimmablecities.org)
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Guide to Raising Chicks (www.youtube.com)
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Cities Should Handle Car Crashes Like They Handle Frat Houses (www.strongtowns.org)
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Pursuits That Can’t Scale (www.workingtheorys.com)
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Tomato nostalgia as I relive my Croatian island childhood (www.croatiaweek.com)
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What Adults Lost When Kids Stopped Playing in the Street (www.theatlantic.com)
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If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need To Prioritize Dignity (www.strongtowns.org)
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Why Japan Looks the Way it Does: Zoning [14:34 | OCT 10 2021 | Life Where I'm From] (youtu.be)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17568740

If you've seen my videos about Japan, you may have wondered why it looks the way it does. Today I'm going to explain it through zoning.

Special Thanks to Lisa for her guidance on the topic.

Sources:

  1. Urban Land Use Planning System in Japan (English): https://www.mlit.go.jp/common/001050453.pdf
  2. Urban Land Use Planning System in Japan (日本語): https://www.mlit.go.jp/common/000234476.pdf
  3. Urbanchoze Japanese Zoning: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
  4. Katsushika Shin-Koiwa Area Zoning Map: https://www.sonicweb-asp.jp/katsushika/map?theme=th_16#layers=dm%2Cth_17&pos=139.86549388299818%2C35.71741330582935
  5. Tokyo Zoning Map: https://cityzone.mapexpert.net/ZoneMap?L=13123&N=%E6%B1%9F%E6%88%B8%E5%B7%9D%E5%8C%BA
  6. Kyoto Bankruptcy: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/09/20/business/kyoto-bankruptcy-tourism/
  7. Kyoto Town Development: https://www.city.kyoto.lg.jp/tokei/cmsfiles/contents/0000281/281300/2shou.pdf
  8. Kyoto New Height Limits: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2007/09/02/national/kyoto-enforces-ad-ban-building-height-changes/
  9. Kyoto City Landscape Policy https://whc.unesco.org/document/116517
  10. Burnaby Zoning Map: https://www.burnaby.ca/services-and-payments/maps-and-open-data
  11. Simcity 1989: https://archive.org/details/msdos_SimCity_1989
  12. Government illustration: https://www.irasutoya.com/2021/10/blog-post_85.html
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The Secret to Japan's Great Cities (www.youtube.com)
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One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss (grist.org)
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Why southern Europeans will soon be the longest-lived people in the world (economist.com)
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Parable of the Sofa (www.tbray.org)
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How to Avoid Being Malled (stronghaven.substack.com)
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How Long Should Objects Last? (www.core77.com)
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA (usa.streetsblog.org)
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The Boring Building Index: a census of places that have become characterless and inhuman (humanise.org)
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The Humanise Campaign call for an end to boring buildings (humanise.org)
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The Winds Are Changing on Incremental Housing (www.strongtowns.org)
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