SamJakes

You don't know me. I'd rather eat than fuck.

When you've researched bacteria, have you found any interesting bacteriophages which blew your mind?

Or the mobile fucking website. On Android. Feels like I'm typing in 1996 for fucks sake, the latency is insane.

Hi Chuck, do you think folks in the "West" could benefit from "Eastern" or "Oriental" (😣) perspectives on land use, development and our use of zoning?

Some context:

One of the more eye-opening things for me, as someone who grew up in Mumbai (India) was the concept of "zoning" in and of itself. In our case (Mumbai), since there aren't fixed "rules" of urban planning in developing nations, we play very fast and loose with land rules, especially since we need to practice intensive land use policies to actually extract the maximum value out of our limited land. As an example, commercial districts or 'market districts' in our towns can have mixed use buildings including ground floor shops, and taller malls instead of wider ones due to lack of space, etc.

However, a lack of understanding of public planning and zoning, etc, leads to unplanned development which feels more chaotic and suffocating sometimes than it has to. Thus, my point/question to you is: if you were asked, as a complete outsider, to rate land use or "Strong Town" principles as they have been applied in Asian (e.g Taipei, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore) or Subcontinental (Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata) cities and towns, how do you think they'd compare to Europe and North America?