Things that The West can learn from The East:

Russia/Eastern Europe:

1. Free-for-all, mixed zoning. You own the land, build whatever you want as long as it's not a munitions factory (Most of Russia, Kazakhstan)

2. Market driven, privatized public transit (Most of Eastern Europe)

3. Small city blocks that let throught traffic.

4. Market controlled access to distric heating/cooling (Yakutsk an extreme example of privatized district level utilities)

5. Higher standards for building's energy efficiency (adopted across the former Soviet block)

6. Learn how to build decent "serially produced" housing for cheap (Ekaterinburg)

7. More traffic light controlled "turn right on red" signals - an easy way to increase traffic thoughtput by double digits (former Soviet block countries)

Asia:

1. learn how to build cities that are dense, but still livable (Hongkong, Singapore, Macau, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tokyo)

2. Better construction technology and materials. MgO board, light/cellular concretes, thermal stops in slabs, automated, computerized armature prefabrication, etc (Most of People Republic if China, South Korea, Russian Far East)

3. Bus rapid transit, and how to make cheap public transport really work (Guangzhou)

4. Traffic laws that are two-wheeler friendly (Taipei, whole of Japan)

5. Public daycare and early primary education (Tokyo)

6. "Public housing for regular people" (Hongkong, Singapore)

7. Incentivize people to buy smaller cars, or use transit (Tokyo)

8. Double deck, or multi leve streets (Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chicago)