Re: [tlug] [OT] What's up with online Japanese<->Japanese dictionaries?

[Lewske Wada <ryu@example.com>]

Martin Killmann wrote:
> If Japanese planning bureaucrats do care for aesthetics, it doesn't show
> in legislation. Except for some areas in Kyoto and (too) few tourist
> spots elsewhere, there are little to no rules on how a building can look
> like. Use and maximum dimensions are regulated (leading to the weird
> slanted buildings you see so often), but not much else.
>
> And property owners frankly don't care if their new building fits other
> buildings in the area. Walk down any shotengai and you can tell the
> decade the building was made by the kind of tacky that was en vogue at
> the time.
>   

Japanese cities emphasized freedom in the beginning.
But nowadays there are some regulations with the height of
buildings and the purpose they are used for.
In Osaka, there is the main street called Midosuji where
only those buildings up to 200m are allowed.

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