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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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Urban Japan: The Neighborhood is a Dojo
In a neighborhood that feels more like a communal living room than a city, one well-placed body slam might just hold the power to change the world.
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Urban Japan: A Local Food Cafe in Every Neighborhood?
This week we step inside a tiny pasta shop in Nagoya, Japan, where half a century of history, and a humble chef reveal how small, local restaurants can…
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Urban Japan: The Benefits of Neighborhood Factories. Really.
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Urban Japan: Cities of Smallness and Awareness
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Urban Japan: The True Cost of Cars and Parking
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Urban Japan: The Neighborhood is a Dojo
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Hokusai, Oi, and the Ecological Mega-City
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Urban Japan: A Local Food Cafe in Every Neighborhood?
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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: Cities of Smallness and Awareness
In the heart of Japan's mega cities, it’s not the big chaotic rush, but the subtle flow of smallness and awareness that keeps everything moving. Join me…
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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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