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Article: EDITORIAL: Beautifying Kyoto, at last.(Editorial)
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- Japan Times (Tokyo, Japan)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2007
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Sep. 23--In early September, the Kyoto city government began enforcing regulations against ugliness in the city. Yes, ugliness. The mayor of Kyoto, Yorikane Masumoto, and his municipal government found the political will to think beyond the immediate concerns of day-to-day business demands, and to consider how Kyoto, once one of the world's most beautiful cities, could look a lot better. Hopefully, the rest of Japan's cities will follow suit.
The half-century of postwar building frenzy, where practicality, price and size seemed the only aesthetic values, may finally be coming to an end. And none too soon inasmuch as Japan's modern cities have failed to build on ...
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