The Goddess Shines on America

At night in Ginza, Tokyo, there are bustling people everywhere. Although it is midnight, you can still see countless beautifully dressed girls walking around. Many boys and girls who do not like to return home are also walking idly on the streets. Although they may not be able to spend money on such occasions, their fundamental purpose is undoubtedly to escape the reality of going home.

At the same time, the entire Hachijo Avenue in Ginza District is full of feasting colors, neon lights gleaming dazzling luster, and various businesses are doing everything they can to promote their stores. Naturally, Kabuki Hall Ichiban Street is not very far away from here, and from time to time you can see a drunk man coming from that direction.

Groups of men in the image of business owners are hugging a beautiful and enchanting woman, walking out of luxury stores one after another; there are also three or two high school-age girls wearing ripped jeans with exaggerated look Hairstyle, and a group of young people who are not at the same time sneer and laugh jokingly. James stood with his back in the corner of the street, sighing heartily.

"It's better to see it at first sight. This is indeed the most prosperous area in Japan, and it is so different from other regions."

"The economy develops too fast, the population is too large and the land is too small, so the most essential part is naturally extremely dense. At the same time, it is precisely because the population and land are too dense that young people face this kind of prosperity. Easily irritated."

During the winter vacation, the whole family ⊕% long ⊕% wind ⊕% text ⊕% study, ww∽w.cfw◆x.ne◆t dispatched, after finishing the business meeting during the day, they went to the street to hang out. Responding to James’ feelings, Alice answered, “You think, dad, even if it’s from Yokohama next to Tokyo to the center of Tokyo, the straight-line distance is 30 kilometers, and it’s only half an hour by train. The city next door can be so convenient. For other residents in the city, is it not as easy as walking around the city?"

After that, she looked at a street leading to the outside world. There were four or five office workers with drunken faces walking towards this place: "Look at my dad, it takes less than 20 minutes to go out of that direction and you can go to singing and dancing. It’s a street in Gicho. Ordinary young men and women can walk around most of Tokyo’s most prosperous area by just a few steps. This amount of information...hehe, just look around."

James nodded and looked around.

As Alice said, there are too many shelves gathered in the too small land, so every building has countless flashing billboards protruding horizontally. It felt as if the balconies of a residential building were covered with clothes, and there was an atmosphere of intensive fear.

"Hey, old sister, do you mean Kabukicho?"

Well, because the whole family moved out, Oscar naturally heard Alice's words clearly: "Is that the biggest red light district in Japan?"

"Don't go!"

Hannah stabbed him to the side and said, "As a little lady in the family, I need to look after you well, and dare to go to such a place...Mom, you must also look after Dad!"

Sophie just chuckled aside, but she didn't make any comments, she just looked around.

At this time, they are standing in the very center of the entire Ginza.

Ginza is a very vast area, divided into Ginza 1-chome to Ginza 8-chome and eight streets. All eight streets are connected by a central avenue. In fact, the 4-chome intersection can be said to be the most prosperous and most prosperous area in the entire Ginza neighborhood. The lively area is exactly where the family is standing at this time.

I saw on this street, when viewed from south to north, it was a modern building with a height of about ten stories but a length of more than 50 meters facing the street. The Shinjuku branch of Keio Department Store is a large nationwide shopping mall occupying about 2,000 square meters of land in Ginza. Its chic and atmospheric shape can directly attract the attention of countless customers from afar.

Adjacent to the east side of it is another dark blue shopping mall. It is also in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped after being laid down. It is also about ten stories high and stands side by side with the Keio Department Store. Two giants occupy this area. The plate is a good space.

And just to the east of the two, a well-groomed cuboid building stands nearly a hundred meters above the ground, and the number of floors must not be less than 20. From the bottom to the top, they are all specialty stores of various commodities. It's a big shopping mall.

This is just the view from this crossroad to one side. On the other three streets, there are large commercial buildings of almost the same size everywhere. That is, the street on the southeast side of 4-chome where the family is standing at this time is a slight exception. The most eye-catching thing is not other commercial buildings, but a shrine and Tokyo Metropolitan Shinjuku High School.

"Actually, Weiwei..."

Sophie looked at the prosperous surroundings and said, "I think Ginza looks good now. If you really bought several plots of land and built an entire so-called commercial plaza, On the contrary, it destroys the current diversity."

As she said, she pointed to the surroundings and said: "Look, the commercial street needs to be bustling and lively, but if you plan to do so, a square occupies several hectares of area and is covered with five or six tall buildings with uniform styles, right? Too monotonous?"

Alice is a good and modest child, and this is the mother's speech, so she pondered carefully, touching her chin, looking at the surrounding buildings of various styles, but she didn't say a word for a while.

Hannah also agreed with her mother's remarks: "Mom makes sense. Where is the shopping street, bustling and bustling can attract customers. Like what you said before... it should be more appropriate for an office building, right?"

This is indeed something that Alice cannot refute. As early as when she told her family about the concept of "chain commercial real estate", she only talked about leasing in terms of function, and did not limit whether it was used for office lease or commercial lease. But in terms of architectural style, she simply summed it up in one sentence.

"Indeed, six or seven identical buildings are placed together, which will make customers feel very tired."

She nodded and said: "Customers are a very visual group. Unless they are attracted to a certain shopping mall, they tend to go to which mall to hang out if they see which mall is well built. So, if I buy one Or if the building is to be used as a shop, it is indeed necessary to consider the issue of diversity."

"This kind of problem is easy to handle, it's just the function positioning and modeling of each building."

James led a large group of troops wandering the streets, they followed the four-chome intersection to the north, and they had just crossed the intersection at this time. Five hundred meters in front of Chuo Avenue, they still have three-chome and six-chome where they can wander, and there is also the same vast area horizontally. Tokyo is small but large at the same time.

"Look, according to Alice's idea, she wants to open this commercial plaza in the center of every major city in the country. Then, every major city has many functional areas. If the location of the plaza is traditional Central business districts, such as the southern end of Manhattan, are of course six or seven standardized skyscrapers over a hundred meters high, as Alice said."

As he said, he pointed his finger around: "But Ginza is a shopping mall, and you see, there are almost no super high-rise buildings over a hundred meters above. Hannah, Oscar, do you know why?"

The two children shook their heads together.

"First of all, do you think, as a shopping center, do customers prefer to hang out within a single floor, or do they repeatedly go up and down the stairs?"

Hannah nodded vigorously: "I hate it!"

Oscar also nodded and said, "I'm here for shopping, not by the elevator."

James patted his son's head and said with a smile: "This is from the customer's point of view. From the architectural point of view, the large shopping mall itself is not suitable for high-rise buildings because of its large single-storey area."

"First of all, in terms of fire compartments in buildings, high-rise buildings need to isolate too many fire zones, which of course will result in shopping malls that cannot meet the needs in terms of functions and a lot of waste. At the same time, a lot of evacuation stairs are also needed. Stairs meet the evacuation requirements of each fire compartment on each floor. In terms of proportion, it greatly increases the area ratio of the stairwell to the elevator room, which is generally uneconomical."

"Finally, you think that setting up so many stairs and fireproof floors to connect the various floors will definitely cause supermarkets. Such large-scale shopping malls cannot be effectively managed. You have also been to supermarkets. Generally, the entrances and exits are not too large. More than one, if you build a shopping center too high, it will be very troublesome."

While talking, everyone was walking around in Ginza. Indeed, as James explained, even the tallest shopping mall will never be built as a super high-rise building over 100 meters. It can even be a super large building with 20 floors. The property of the consortium. And it is this kind of quasi-super high-rise shopping mall that is unique to an island country like Japan. You can hardly see the same situation in any city in the United States.

"But if it is an office building, it is very necessary for super high-rise buildings."

Sophie took the conversation. She was satisfied to see that Alice was thinking about it, and she saw the other two children being humbly taught: "After all, the company's output per unit area is much higher than that of the shopping mall~www.readwn .com~ And for the company, efficiency is everything. Office buildings with a small unit area but many floors can concentrate the population. Use the vertical and horizontal traffic inside the building to greatly shorten the contact distance between departments, thereby increasing effectiveness."

"At the same time, high-rise buildings are far away from the ground area and have better ventilation and higher air quality. Moreover, the high-rise buildings are also a sign of the degree of urban development, that is to say, urban landmark buildings can attract a large range of business people. Come to invest locally, don't you think?"

Alice nodded steadily and agreed.

Indeed, the office building full of companies is a symbol of the wealth of a city, and the more landmark buildings, the more prosperous a city and the strength of the companies that have settled in. Just like the Empire State Building, when countless Chinese in the 1980s and 1990s heard that Manhattan could actually build a 400-meter-high skyscraper in the 1930s, this matter can be explained to everyone clearly. The city and country are prospering.

"So, this is also an early investment."

As the family continued to wander around, her eyes rolled around and wondered: "The world is covered with skyscrapers, how can I not have my own share in it?" (To be continued.)