The obvious choices are Most Pennsylvania Small Towns like where I live. Although it is Politically mixed here. You can find many towns though that are mostly all republican. Of course I would leave the US for Japan if I had to leave the US. Also your point about Town Squares is interesting that you docked PA cities for not having them, as Japanese Urbanism also tends to lack town squares. Appearantly it is a very European thing, as I haven't been to and probably will never go to Europe I really cannot judge.
@AbstractEntityJ26 күн бұрын
Latin American historic towns and cities often have town squares as well. In North America, we don't have a ton of really beautiful town squares, even in our more historic cities and towns. Although Quebec City, Montreal, New Orleans, and Savannah do.
@linuxman777726 күн бұрын
@AbstractEntityJ I have had this discussion with family and friends comparing and contrasting American, European, and Japanese town layouts. Such as where the Religious sites are, how are cemeteries placed? , where is there commercial activities? Where are parks and public facilities placed, what kinds of homes are there? The lack of town squares in Japanese and American urbanism is a common discussion. One difference between Japan and the US is that Cemeteries in the US are attached to Religious institutions like churches, and often exist outside of town. While in Japan they are directly in neighborhoods. I have had people tell me that Europe has row homes like the US, whereas in Japan there are not really any row homes, the people either live in detached single family, in apartments above shops, or in Appartment buildings.
@AbstractEntityJ26 күн бұрын
@@linuxman7777Old Kyoto has row homes, does it not? I would assume that a lot more places in Japan did prior to WW2.
@linuxman777726 күн бұрын
@@AbstractEntityJ it really isn't true row houses in that although buildings were connected, they were not identical, and were not just houses, they often had businesses and other commerse in the buildings. You can find long chains of buildings in most cities in Japan especially on covered shopping streets, but they are once again commercial.
@AbstractEntityJ25 күн бұрын
@@linuxman7777 What you describe sounds like a lot of historic mixed use neighborhoods in europe and North America.