Why is Tokyo's skyline, despite being one of the biggest cities on earth, not as impressive as allot of smaller cities? Its not like they have allot of historical buildings like European cities that need to keep their charm.
Why is Tokyo's skyline, despite being one of the biggest cities on earth, not as impressive as allot of smaller cities...
Blake Gray
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Sebastian Gutierrez
Because skyscrapers are for third worlders
Aiden Davis
Fuck historical buildings man. 2000 years from now the skyscrappers will become historical buildings. I say we do like poland and build more buildings
Jordan Butler
Shut the fuck up moron
Matthew Carter
or you can keep both and do it like Paris and just get a designated skyscraper area?
Ryder Johnson
Then why doesn't Slovakia have any?
James Hernandez
same question why most expensive Tokyo's neighborhoods look like slums in western Europe
i don't understand why Japanese aesthetics is praised so much
Brody Russell
Cope
Sebastian Walker
Not all third world countries have skyscrapers but all countries with skyscrapers belong to the third world
Henry Butler
It's not possible to redevelop the whole city due to the law which is very protective of both landlords' rights and borrowers' rights. We are okay with that.
Andrew Foster
The buildings might be old and the pavement cracked but if you look closely there's no trash on the streets (bags left out to be collected != trash on the street ), no graffiti, no homeless, the walls are clean and washed. It looks nothing like eastern europe which is just depressing to look at.
Henry Morales
where i live, building in tall is still not as accepted because nothing should be higher than the cathedral, and lots of people oppose and use the argument that its destroying the soul of the city. but ""taller buildings"" are springing up around the historical centre edges, i personally don't think picking one area where skscrappers would not harm the charm of the city is a bad idea.
Jace Evans
graffiti should be fucking outlawed. i hate it so much.
Jack Powell
>there's no trash on the streets (bags left out to be collected != trash on the street ), no graffiti, no homeless
there's none of it in residential districts in western Europe either
an average Finnish neighborhood looks like that, right? looks way better than an average neighborhood in Japan
>It looks nothing like eastern europe which is just depressing to look at.
But no one compares it to eastern Europe, but to western one. Anyway, good neighborhoods in eastern Europe look better than good neighborhoods in Japan, the problem is that eastern Europe has a lot very bad neighborhoods
John Jenkins
>graffiti should be fucking outlawed.
I'm sure it is, just it's hardly enforced because it's hard to catch the perpetrator.
Blake Gonzalez
you don’t even know what that word means
Jeremiah Ortiz
It's really interesting how pricey land is yet they don't build high.
Don't they avoid building like in other Asian cities due to earthquakes?
Tokyo is clearly the most impressive in Asia on the street level though, at least in it's centers
Levi Robinson
thats part of the truth, but there is also the side of hipsters who think its 'inspiring' and 'artistic' depiste the fact that 99% of grafiti is as ugly as the ass of a pig. but the media never shows these. our trains are full of grafiti that you can't even look out of the train windows anymore and nothing is done about it.
Hudson Price
Tokyo's skyscrapers are all relatively the same size instead of having a group of extra large ones that are the centre of attention. Instead, theirs is the Tokyo Tower which although looks like a neo Eiffel Tower, doesn't look modern enough for everything around it.
Luke Nelson
Japan is probably the most overrated country in the world desu
Wyatt King
Because urban sprawl i.e. lack of high rise buildings with unique designs. Japanese prefer simple low rise buildings. They look nice and neat on the ground but don't really form an amazing landscape seen from the sky.
You get similar impression from north american megacities other than NYC
Liam Martin
It means a proper part of the population has shit living standards if you're not talking about the muh russia definition from 60 years ago.
Countries is an exaggeration but for cities it's most definitely true, I can't think of a single city in europe with skyscrapers that isn't a shithole and from everything I've seen it's the same in the US.
Noah Kelly
it's not a good idea to build many skyscrapers in a country like this
>Japan accounts for about 20 percent of the earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater on the Richter scale. Each day about 1,000 tremors that can be felt are produced in Japan. More than 130,000 quakes were logged in Japan in 2005. Each year nearly ten percent of the energy released in the world in earthquakes is centered around Japan. In the last century Japan has experienced 25 destructive earthquakes. In some places small earthquakes are felt on a weekly and even daily basis. One journalist wrote that "Japan is always living on the edge of one disaster or another."
Wyatt Clark
just imagine you live in such a place and now you know why Japan has such a high suicide rate for a 'developed' country
most of Japanese neighborhoods are really depressing
Wyatt Hughes
This is just sad. Your posts I mean. Not the pic, it looks completely fine.
Jordan Sanchez
>I can't think of a single city in europe with skyscrapers that isn't a shithole
Vienna, Madrid, Frankfurt
Isaiah Clark
>I can't think of a single city in europe with skyscrapers that isn't a shithole
Vienna, Madrid, Frankfurt
Well, maybe it looks fine for a Finnish person, because you also live in blocks of flats but this is as depressing as your average 'eastern Europe' - everything is grey, densely packed, no greenery at all. I have no idea how it is fine but whatever.
Logan Sanders
Tokyo skytree looks way better than Tokyo tower imo. Tokto tower looks nice at night but at daylight it's too red-ish
Dylan Jackson
>Frankfurt
m8 I've been to Frankfurt, it's the worst I've seen in Germany by far
>Madrid
infamous camps right besides rich regions in which crime and drug usage are rampant
>Vienna
okay you got me there
Thomas Cruz
Based
Robert Rogers
what a beautiful place, you can literally feel $40,000 GDP per capita pouring out of these houses
Samuel Smith
He doesn't have to. It's quite nice not having to worry about the eyesore of tasteless glass towers.
Juan Powell
Rotterdam?
Logan Long
What do you think of pic related?
Jackson Campbell
This, and when they're built, they're extra chunky so that they don't collapse
Adam Wilson
I was in a capsule hotel when an earthquake began and I never experienced such a strong one so when it started I thought the man in the capsule above me is jerking off until it became too strong and I realize what's going on
Josiah Rogers
can someone drop into a random place in streetview for Belgium and rate? this can end very badly of good
Anthony Thomas
btw Flanders area, don't have much to say about Wallonia since thats another country
Michael Hernandez
if you told me that it's Japan I'd believe
Japan was probably the most disappointing country in terms of architecture, maintenance and urban planning I've ever seen (on google street view)
Michael Torres
what’s the point of rating cities based on pictures from the sky? are you a bird?
Levi Howard
Not the other Finn, but I can't help it man, I like small alleys like that. It's the same reason I think even favelas look cozy in their own way. Same appeal as old European towns. Narrow winding alleyways are just much more fun than wide roads. None of those buildings are very good looking but somehow it just works
Christopher Morris
>no greenery at all
This is actually important.
Nathaniel Rodriguez
perfectly maintained streets and houses, everything is similar and looks ordered, basically almost like the Netherlands (the perfect country and the example for the world) except Dutch houses usually are terraced/semi-detached and in Holland the pavement would be red
Michael Edwards
maybe i am.
i'm going to that pic this summer if everything goes right
Kevin Baker
worm fingers typed this post
David Collins
I don't know where that "no greenery" thing came from. We have trees everywhere. The only dense areas are a couple blocks in the centers. Even in Helsinki the suburbs just look like a forest from the air because the trees cover up the buildings
Jonathan Bennett
Reminds me of the UK
Juan Clark
cause its boring? idk but you dont really need to come here.
ive lived here my whole time but actually. its boring and not impressive. probably its not so different from your irrelevant city in a suburb area. go to a sea country if you like asian historical sites and architectures.
Hunter Price
rural area, a bit more rough, there are ugly overhead power lines and some houses look like they were about to collapse, over the village looks like it hasn't changed much since 1930, but it's still decently maintained for an old village (lacks sidewalks tho)
Jaxon Walker
yeah belgians care about making the house look somewhat original (sometimes succesfull, sometimes not), I live on the border, so i know the dutch way of building.
Brody Hill
I wasnt talking about Finland
Josiah King
>I don't know where that "no greenery" thing came from.
Becuse he's a pole and thinks that because he lives in a grey depressing shithole with no trees means everyone else does too.
Parker Anderson
Oh wait yeah, I'm retarded. Never mind
Luis Campbell
thats not really a compliment most of the times.
Luke Howard
and this is just like UK
Alexander Parker
Poland looks much better than you think, though. Thankfully we have google street view that allowed me to get rid of my complexes, Poland doesn't really look much worse from many western countries and it's surprising given how much poorer we are than for example Japan.
Cooper Baker
Old building like that are very rare in Flanders, even in villages.
true
Aiden Myers
now you can rate random places from my city
Benjamin Jenkins
pretty good, road looks good, houses look decent, if you told me this was Western europe, i would believe it.
Robert Hall
people in the west usually have a stereotypical view of Poland like there was still 1985
sure there are rough places but overall it's not that bad like people think
Ian Jenkins
same thing, good roads, good houses. I tought Poland was suposed to be like a rich capital with most of the rest being dirt poor like most other eastern european countries are.