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Urban Japan: The True Cost of Cars and Parking
Free street parking is not exactly free, and most Americans are paying a lot for it without knowing. This week we look at the real cost of street…
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Urban Japan: Why Is It So Good?
This week starts a series revolving around the neighborhood below, a typical urban neighborhood in Japan.
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Summoning Sacred Nature to the City
If you see an odd person with a basket on their head and a bamboo flute in their hands, you might have happened upon a flute-playing assassin-monk…
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Hokusai, Oi, and the Ecological Mega-City
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Mojiko: We are Strange Tourists
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Shimonoseki: The Simple Gratitude of a Pedestrian
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SHORT #13: A Tree Who Negotiates
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Mojiko: A Family Liquor Shop and the Re-Imagining of Old Things
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Five Views of Three Japanese Cities
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Summoning Sacred Nature to the City
If you see an odd person with a basket on their head and a bamboo flute in their hands, you might have happened upon a flute-playing assassin-monk…
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Hokusai, Oi, and the Ecological Mega-City
For development to be useful and sane, it must be tethered to the reality of our place in nature and the cosmos.
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Mojiko and Kokura: Finding Your Inner Garden with Tsuboniwa
Morning in the guest house is quiet enough to hear the ocean wind several blocks away as it rushes between the buildings and into the flat expanse of…
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Urban Japan: The True Cost of Cars and Parking
Free street parking is not exactly free, and most Americans are paying a lot for it without knowing. This week we look at the real cost of street…
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SHORT #40: Bikes, Parks, Kids, and the Slow Tide of a Political Movement
A true story of a politician and his 'crazy' idea for making cities more livable
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Staying Put: How to Replace Public Transit with Cars, Part 2
This week we imagine what our urban areas would look like if everyone had electric cars, and we completely removed public transit, cycling, and walking…

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