Japan's extreme land-fragmentation problem

Japan faced some of the world’s toughest planning problems. It solved them by letting homeowners replan whole neighborhoods privately by supermajority vote. You can see the images, graphs and read the article at https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-to-redraw-a-city/

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Words by Anya Martin
Read by Stuart Ritchie
Music by David Hackett