Human Scale

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

For most of us, autonomous vehicles are this nebulous concept that might appear some time in our future, but there are other people living with this reality today - whether they like it or not. In this episode, I talk to Jon from the Twitch channel Bike Curious about what it's like to live in San Francisco, where autonomous vehicles are around you every single day and there's nothing you can do about it - except put a traffic cone on their hood.