Re: NANFA-- The Real Cause of Sprawl/Prevention

Robert Carillio (darterman_at_hotmail.com)
Tue, 05 Dec 2000 11:51:59 -0500

Ed, This is a good idea. I just want to add that it seems like Americans
think that it is a comforting concept, to be able to shop at one store and
buy all we need. In many cases, this is what mega stores try to promote, it
results in a few huge stores trying to provide for the world, so to speak.
This dwindles the diversity in the economy and leaves the consumer with
little choices on where they obtain goods. It is much like The Mahoning
Valley, where I live, thinking they can depend on General Motors to be the
cornerstone of the economy. The danger is that if they go, we all suffer (a
dominoe effect!) This is why a diverse economy is so much safer for many
more people, and not only a rich few. Diversity breeds stability! I have
always wondered why 100 independent small business in an economy, operating
healthy, is not just as good as 1 huge place providing jobs for all???? If
that huge place falls..... we all suffer, because we are too dependent on
one entity. Finally, I want to add that this drives out the middle class
market, who coincidentally, is the target market for those huge mega store
in the first place. Without that customer base, who will buy things from
"Wal-Mart" so to speak....... Rob C.

>From: "Edward Venn" <e_venn_at_hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>Subject: NANFA-- The Real Cause of Sprawl/Prevention
>Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 08:07:15 -0000
>
>America is in the mind of many Japanese a place of wide open vistas. The
>Japanese believe that you have a surplus of everything, including land.
>Here
>in the Land of the Rising Yen, the concept , while not true, is that there
>are no great open spaces or room to make malls. Therefore parking lots are
>stacked 20 storeys high with elevators in lieu of on/off ramps. Likewise
>malls are vertical structures with rail, subway, pedestrian and vehicular
>access as well as other business and recreational facilities within an arms
>throw. Taxes are high in this country, they take 35% from moderately rich
>people such as the typical American ex–pat working for Citibank. If you
>really want to have malls in your towns, cities etc., build them vertically
>and then give small businesses a tax break to set up shop around the malls,
>additionally persuade people to build residences and office complexes in
>close proximity to these areas. But, to really benefit from this mandate
>that each new mall must be built to last a minimum of 50 years, will be
>constructed in an economically depressed area of a city and the owner of
>the
>mall complex will contribute to building public transportation for the
>area.
>This is what they do in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan, 3 booming but
>obstensively sickly economies, with great success.
>
>Edward Venn
>Tokyo Japan
>Where there are more than 20 publications on tropical fish.
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