gTokyo: a comfortable metropolis of clear skies and greeneryh

[maninjapan]

Tokyo is much greener than New York or London would be. Houses with even tiny gardens plant stuff. The Imperial Palace site and numerous parks (Hibiya and Yoyogi parks and others could name more) make Tokyo greener than many larger cities. But of course no one in here will agree with that.
New York, from downtown all the way up to 59th Street where Central park starts, show me any green space. I could say the same of London and Paris. You'll throuw Hyde park and Jardin de Luxembourg at me and then the Imperial Palace grounds beat them in size.

so much bollocks there...

So what if the imperial palace is bigger? How accessbile is it to the public? Come om - to go in there you have to look at the official site, send in your passport details, then you MIGHT be accepted on the tour but even then, that could be cancelled on the day.

If you look at the other major world cities, ie New York, London and Moscow, the amount of greenery they have pisses all over Tokyo. And I mean Tokyo city, not the big sprawling metropolis that encompasses anything and everything that it touches.

ps notice how you didnt compare the Imperial Palace to Central Park... why is that?

[Jack]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-green_across_cultures#Japanese
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ao_(color)
Think Jack don't know shit, eh.

Like you know a lot fucking idiot. The Chinese character for Ao means green in Chinese. So go fuck yourself.

[Jack]

so much bollocks there...

So what if the imperial palace is bigger? How accessbile is it to the public? Come om - to go in there you have to look at the official site, send in your passport details, then you MIGHT be accepted on the tour but even then, that could be cancelled on the day.

If you look at the other major world cities, ie New York, London and Moscow, the amount of greenery they have pisses all over Tokyo. And I mean Tokyo city, not the big sprawling metropolis that encompasses anything and everything that it touches.

ps notice how you didnt compare the Imperial Palace to Central Park... why is that?

Hey bud, I've already surrender that argument in a previous post. So move on.

[DrP]

With few <very> exceptions, all of the parks I've visited in Tokyo basically remind me of the crack-dump playgrounds so familiar from my hometown of E. LA in the 70's. The other MAIN problem with Tokyo liveability is the complete utter lack of proper street and road construction that is compatible with humans (or animals). No benches, very little green, shit sidewalks usually crowded by pedestrians, motorscooters, bicycles and random drunks - not to mention touts, ugly ass signs, tissue hawkers, screaming pachinko vendors, stores fronts spilling, putrid , stinking yatai stands and of course, just plain puke everywhere. Oh, did I forget the lingering fragrance of eau-de-salaryman piss and cigarettes?

Yeah - its a fine city indeed.

[Mike Oxlong]

[Iraira]

Hey bud, I've already surrender that argument in a previous post. So move on.

Where is your white flag post, dude? Can't find it, I want to bronze it.

[maninjapan]

http://au.answers.yahoo.com/answers2/frontend.php/question?qid=20071108055419AAmSPaf

You don't know jack-shit!

got to love that blokes source

I'm chinese!

[Jack]

got to love that blokes source

I'm chinese!

OKay, I'm not able to write Chinese characters on this computer, but how would you write Qingdao? It's written as "aoshima" in Japanese. When I told them that so "Qingdao" means blue island, they said no, it mean green island. We had a big discussion how the kanji for ao means blue in Japanese and everyone at the dinner table in Qingdao said no, that character means green. So if everyone on the street thinks that "ao", the character I am not able to write on this computer, says it's green in Chinese then it is green.

[Samurai_Jerk]

OKay, I'm not able to write Chinese characters on this computer, but how would you write Qingdao? It's written as "aoshima" in Japanese. When I told them that so "Qingdao" means blue island, they said no, it mean green island. We had a big discussion how the kanji for ao means blue in Japanese and everyone at the dinner table in Qingdao said no, that character means green. So if everyone on the street thinks that "ao", the character I am not able to write on this computer, says it's green in Chinese then it is green.

Actually, I heard the same thing from a HK Chinese girl that was in my English class in the States. I forgot what we were talking about but I mentioned Qingdao. Not being a Mandarin speaker she didn't know what I was talking about. So I said the characters were blue island. She still didn't know what I was talking about. Then a Japanese student in the class wrote it on the board in kanji. She said that in Chinese the character means a "kind of green" and was surprised to hear that in Japanese it means blue.

[Buraku]

I think the city can have whatever goals they like on making the city more green, but in reality it is the investment in new construction that will dictate the feel for the city and hopefully set a development attitude in Tokyo. So my question to the man in the know, Captain, is: Are there are any signs that new property developments in Tokyo will keep moving towards more green space, more accessible skylines, eco-rooftops, etc.?

Building rules slow Japanese growth
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/25/bloomberg/bxecon.php



"Although private investment in construction accounts for only 3 percent of the economy, the building industry employs almost one worker in 10, and its slowdown is spreading to other sectors. "

[Samurai_Jerk]

Actually, I heard the same thing from a HK Chinese girl that was in my English class in the States. I forgot what we were talking about but I mentioned Qingdao. Not being a Mandarin speaker she didn't know what I was talking about. So I said the characters were blue island. She still didn't know what I was talking about. Then a Japanese student in the class wrote it on the board in kanji. She said that in Chinese the character means a "kind of green" and was surprised to hear that in Japanese it means blue.

I can't beleive someone gave me a red mark for this of all statements. That's pretty weak.