>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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