At night, Ginza, Tokyo, is bustling with people, and even though it's the middle of the night, you can still see countless girls dressed up in fancy clothes. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoMany young men and girls who don't like to go home also wander the streets with nothing to do, although they may not be able to have money to spend on such occasions, but their fundamental purpose is undoubtedly to escape the reality of going home.

At the same time, the entire eight main streets of Ginza Ward are full of bright lights and neon lights, and various businesses are promoting their shops in every possible way. Naturally, Kabukikan Ichiban Street is not very far away, and from time to time you can see drunken men walking in that direction.

Groups of men in the image of business owners are walking out of luxury stores one after another, with a beautiful woman with a bewitching figure, and three or two high school-aged girls, wearing ripped jeans and exaggerated hairstyles, are jokingly laughing with a group of equally unobtrusive young people. James stood on the corner of the street with his hands behind his back, sighing heartily.

"It's better to see than to hear, and it's one of the busiest areas in Japan, and it's so different from other regions. ”

"The economy is growing too fast, there are too many people and too little land, so the best parts are naturally presented very densely. At the same time, it is precisely because of the degree of population and land density that teenagers are the most susceptible to stimulation in the face of this prosperity. ”

During the winter holidays, the whole family is out and about, and after the day's business meetings, it's time to wander the streets. In response to James's emotion, Alice answered: "You think, Dad, even if it is from Yokohama City, which is next door to Tokyo, to the center of Tokyo, the straight-line distance is thirty kilometers, and it is only half an hour by train. The city next door is so convenient, and for the rest of the city, isn't it as easy to get around the city as it is to walk?"

As she spoke, she looked at a certain street leading to the outside world, where four or five drunken office workers were walking towards it: "Look Dad, it won't take you twenty minutes to walk in that direction, and you will be able to get to Kabukicho Town." Ordinary young men and women can walk around most of Tokyo's busiest areas with just a few steps...... Hehe, just take a look around. ”

James nodded, looking around.

As Alice said, there are so many shelves in the too small plot of land that each building has countless billboards with flashing lights sticking out horizontally. It feels like the balconies of a residential building are covered with clothes, and there is an atmosphere of dense fear.

"Hey, sis, you said Kabukicho?"

Well, because it was the whole family, Oscar naturally heard Alice's words clearly: "It's the largest red light district in Japan?"

"Don't go!"

Hannah poked him in the waist with her hand: "As a little lady in the family, I need to take good care of you and dare to go to that kind of place...... Mom, you have to be optimistic about Dad!"

Sophie chuckled on the sidelines, but didn't say anything, just looked around.

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

Ginza is a very large area, divided into Ginza 1-chome to Ginza 8-chome eight streets, all eight chome are connected by a central avenue, in fact, the intersection of 4-chome can be called the most prosperous and lively area in the entire Ginza district, and it is also the position where the family is standing at this time.

I saw that on this street, looking from south to north, it was a modern building with a height of about 10 floors, but a length of more than 50 meters on the side facing the street. The Shinjuku branch of Keio Department Store is a large national shopping mall that occupies about 2,000 square meters of land in Ginza, and its chic and atmospheric shape can directly attract the attention of countless customers from afar.

Adjacent to its east side is another dark blue shopping mall, which is also a rectangular shape after being put down, with the same height of about ten floors, standing side by side with the Keio Department Store, and two behemoths occupy a good space in this plate.

And just further east of them, a regular rectangular building is rising nearly 100 meters from the ground, the number of floors must not be less than 20, from the bottom to the top are all kinds of commodity stores, undoubtedly a big shopping center.

It's just a view of the intersection looking to one side, and on the other three streets, there are large commercial buildings of almost the same size. The street southeast of the 4-chome, where the family was standing at this time, was a slight exception, and the most striking thing was not another shopping mall, but a shrine and Tokyo Metropolitan Shinjuku High School.

"Actually, Vivi ......"

Sophie looked at the bustling scene around her and said, "I think it's good that Ginza is looking like it is now, if you really buy several blocks of land and build a whole so-called commercial plaza, it will destroy this diversity now." ”

As she spoke, she pointed around and said, "You see, the commercial street should be prosperous and lively, but if you follow your plan, a square occupies an area of several hectares, and five or six high-rise buildings with a uniform style are built, isn't it too monotonous?"

Alice was a good and modest child, and it was her mother who spoke, so she pondered carefully, touched her chin, and looked at the many buildings of different styles around her, but she was silent for a while.

Hannah also agreed with her mother's statement: "Mom has a point, and the commercial street is lively to attract customers." Like you said before...... It's probably an office building, right?"

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

"It's true that six or seven identical buildings are put together and customers get bored. ”

She nodded: "Customers are a very visual group, unless they come to a certain shopping mall, they often go to which shopping mall is good-looking." So, if I buy or build a building that is going to be used as a shop, I really have to take into account the issue of diversity. ”

"This kind of problem is easy to deal with, it is just the functional positioning and shape of each building. ”

James led a large army wandering through the streets, and they had just crossed the intersection along the four-chome intersection to the north. Five hundred meters ahead of Chuo Avenue, they have 3-chome and 6-chome to hang out about, and there is an equally vast area horizontally, Tokyo is small but also huge.

"You see, according to Alice's idea, she was going to open this commercial plaza in the center of every big city in every country. Well, every large city has a lot of functional areas, and if the square is located in a traditional central business district, such as the southern end of Manhattan, it is of course six or seven standard skyscrapers hundreds of meters high, as Alice said. ”

As he spoke, he pointed around: "But Ginza is a shopping mall, and you don't see it, there are almost no super high-rise buildings more than 100 meters here. Hannah, Oscar, do you know why?"

The two children shook their heads in unison.

"First of all, do you think, as a shopping mall, would customers prefer to wander around the single-story area, or go up and down the stairs repeatedly?"

Hannah nodded vigorously, "I'm disgusted!"

Oscar also nodded and said, "Lao Tzu came shopping, not by 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 center is not suitable for high-rise buildings because of its large single-story area." ”

"First of all, in terms of fire zoning of buildings, high-rise buildings need to isolate too many fire zones, which of course will lead to shopping malls that cannot meet the needs in terms of function and have a lot of waste. At the same time, in terms of evacuation stairs, a large number of stairs are also needed to meet the evacuation requirements of each fire section on each floor, which greatly increases the area ratio of stairwells and elevators in terms of proportion, and is generally uneconomical. ”

"In the end, you think, with so many stairs and fire barriers to connect the floors, it must be a supermarket, a large shopping mall like this, which cannot be effectively managed. You've all been to the supermarket, and there are usually not too many entrances and exits, so if you really build a shopping mall too high-rise, it will be very troublesome. ”

As he spoke, everyone was walking around in Ginza, and it was true that even the tallest shopping mall would never be built more than 100 meters tall, and 20 floors would be considered the property of a super-large consortium. And this kind of quasi-super high-rise shopping mall is also a feature that can only be found in an island country like Japan, and you can hardly see the same situation in any city in the United States.

"But if it's an office building, it's necessary to be super high-rise. ”

Sophie picked up the conversation, she was satisfied to see Alice pondering about it, and she saw the other two children looking humbly taught: "After all, the company's output value per unit area is much higher than that of a shopping mall, and for the company, efficiency is everything. ”

"At the same time, high-rise buildings are located away from the ground level, with better ventilation and higher air quality. Moreover, high-rise buildings are also a sign of the degree of development of the city, which means that the city's landmark buildings can attract a large range of business people to invest in the local area, don't you say?"

Alice nodded steadily and agreed.

Indeed, an office building full of companies is a symbol of a city's wealth, and the more landmark a building, the more it can reflect the prosperity of a city and the strength of the companies it occupies. Just like the Empire State Building, when countless Chinese in the eighties and nineties heard that Manhattan could actually build a 400-meter-high skyscraper in the thirties, this one thing can most clearly explain to everyone that the city and the country are prosperous.

"So, it's also an upfront investment. ”

As her family continued to wander around, her eyes rolled and she wondered, "How can I not have my share in the skyscrapers built all over the world?" )