Is Japan unusually equal for its scale?
Adjusting for population helps Japan a little. Germany is why scale cannot explain the gap with Northern Europe.
Urbanism
american urbanism focuses too much on biking infra and other minutiae and misses the big picture
I’ve moved to NYC now from the bay area (and previously LA where I grew up) and talking with people here but especially back home who might be interested in urbanism reveals to me what i consider to be a slight misunderstanding of the…