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There's also epic flood control stuff on the river north of Tokyo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Outer_Undergr...

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i'm constantly floored by the scale and quality of infrastructure in japan, and not just tokyo even out woop woop they have rail, road, water and telco infrastructure that makes our efforts look feeble.

amazing shit you can do when you run public debt at close to 100% of GDP :)

Japanese public debt is actually at ~200% of GDP. Australia is not seen as a particularly safe bond issuer, we could not sustain that level of debt.

And when you have population density. It makes economic sense to provide better services when you have x number of people per m^2 as compared to the Australian density.

I'm a big believer that Australian cities should be bearing this in mind and building up rather than out.

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