Watching Boiling City —— Thoughts on ——NHK Documentary (Japan)

Boiling City records the development of eight cities: Dubai, Tokyo, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Dhaka, Istanbul and Johannesburg. What impressed me the most was Tokyo, Japan. The underground traffic is developed, and there are many high-rise buildings on the ground, so the utilization efficiency of resources is maximized.

1. A brief introduction to Tokyo

Tokyo has been the capital and largest city of Japan since the Edo era, the political and economic center of Japan, the heart of Japan, the largest city in Asia and the most developed city in the world. Tokyo, formerly known as Edo, was its capital after Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan and established the shogunate in 163. In the documentary, Tokyo is called monster Tokyo because it has a very large population with the smallest territorial area. Japan has an area of .2188 square kilometers, a population of more than 13 million and a dense population. From the 198s to the beginning of this century, due to the shift of Japanese large enterprises to overseas production and the housing, transportation and environment problems caused by overpopulation, the population of Tokyo moved to the surrounding areas, and the population continued to flow out, resulting in the hollowing out of the central city of Tokyo, but now it is increasing at the rate of 1, people every year. The main reason is that a large number of enterprises moved to Tokyo and foreign-funded enterprises marched in, which made the population of Tokyo increase again.

2. Feeling

Some people say that the development history of Tokyo is a history of traffic changes. I think this sentence is very vivid. Japan's underground transportation network extends in all directions, including not only subways, rail transit and expressways, but also the shortest crossing zone between them is only 1 meter, which can fully reflect the exquisite rail technology in Japan.

according to statistics, as of 21, the total length of rail transit routes in Tokyo Circle is 2,419.8km, of which the subway is less than 357.5km, the civil railway is 1,157.9km, the JR railway is 887.2km and the tram is 17.2km.. It can be said that a small Tokyo city is surrounded by rail transit.

3. Development model

Although Japan is indeed shameful in some behaviors, it is undeniable that there are many places worth learning from and many places that are far behind our country.

Tokyo, as a rapidly developing city after World War II, is bound to have many problems, including the "big city disease" that we are now facing: the large-scale migration of population to big cities, which in turn leads to a series of problems such as traffic congestion, housing shortage and environmental deterioration in big cities. And Japan has found appropriate measures to solve (alleviate) this problem.

Japan has adopted a "multi-level urban structure" to alleviate the traffic congestion in Tokyo.

in 197, the Japanese government put forward the concept of "multi-level urban structure".

In 1991, in the Third Tokyo Long-term Plan, the reference to multi-level cities was changed to "multi-level cities".

In the Tokyo 1992 Plan, it is proposed to build a multi-center city.

in my opinion, whether it is a "multi-level city structure", "multi-level city" or "multi-center city" in Tokyo, it is inevitable to decentralize the functions of the central city and transfer them to neighboring cities or other cities, that is, to develop satellite cities to share the pressure of population and transportation in the central city. This practice seems to have been implemented in our country. For example, Beijing, as the political, economic and cultural center of our country, began to transfer its economic functions to Shanghai, so as to disperse the pressure on Beijing. Another example is xiong'an new area, a newly established country, which has the same function. (I think)

This is what I think we should learn from in the development mode. Besides, there are also contents on resource utilization efficiency and rural development, which will be introduced one by one.

Japan's utilization efficiency of resources, especially the underground floor area ratio, really amazes me, and I won't even let go of the underground. In my opinion, Japan's ability to make full use of resources, especially in the land use in the central area of Tokyo, is worth learning from the cities that I have lived in and are developing into. However, special attention should be paid to safety issues and the quality of housing construction.

compared with China's rural development, Japan's rural development is ahead of China's, so China can learn from Japan's rural development mode, so as to improve my rural development model. This is what I saw in "Sociological Thinking". There is a comparative study of rural revitalization between China and Japan and the book "Regeneration of Rural Japan", which can be read.

4. Enlightenment to China

During the period of high-speed urbanization, the gathering of population and factors in big cities and megacities is the market law.

there is still a lot of room for development in the central city and its jurisdiction.

we should pay attention to the role of small and medium-sized cities around megacities.

pay attention to the metropolitan area with a radius of 3 kilometers.

these are my feelings about Japan.