At night, Ginza, Tokyo, is full of bustling crowds. Although it is midnight, you can still see countless dressed girls walking around. Many boys and girls who don’t like to return home are also walking on the streets without doing anything. 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 Ginza District of Hatsunomi Street was filled with bright and green colors, and neon lights were flashing with dazzling luster. All kinds of businesses were using their best to promote their shops. Naturally, Kabuki Hall Yifan Street was not very far away from this place, and you could see a man in alcohol coming from that direction from time to time.

Groups of men with the image of business owners were hugging a beautiful woman with a charming figure and walked out of luxury stores one after another; there were also three or two high school girls wearing ripped jeans, with exaggerated hairstyles, and laughing with a group of young people who were also ignorant. James stood in a corner of the street with his hands behind his back, sighing sincerely.

"It is better to see it at first sight than to hear it. It is truly the most prosperous area in Japan, and it is too different from other regions."

"The economy is developing too fast, with too many people and too little land, so the most important part is naturally particularly dense. At the same time, it is precisely because of the degree to which the population and land are too dense, that young people are also most susceptible to stimulation in the face of this prosperity."

During the winter vacation, the whole family went out. After the daytime business meeting, it was time to stroll on the street. In response to James's feelings, Alice answered: "Dad, even from Yokohama City next to Tokyo to the center of downtown Tokyo, the straight line distance is only 30 kilometers, and it takes only half an hour to take the tram. The next city can be so convenient. For other residents in the city, it is not as easy to come to various places in the city as if they are walking?"

As she said that, she looked at a street leading to the outside world, where four or five alcoholic office workers were walking here: "Look at dad, it takes less than twenty minutes to walk out of that direction to reach Kabukicho. Ordinary young men and women can walk around half of the most prosperous area in Tokyo, and this information volume... Haha, just look around."

James nodded and looked around.

As Alice said, too many shelves gathered in the too small land, so countless billboards with flashing lights stretched out horizontally in each building. It felt like the layers of the balcony of a residential building were covered with clothes, and there was a very dense atmosphere of fear.

"Hey, sister, do you say Kabukicho?"

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

"Don't go!"

Hannah poked him with her hand and said, "As the little lady in the family, I need to take good care of you and dare to go to that kind of place... Mom, you must also take good care of your father!"

Sophie just chuckled aside, but she didn't say anything, just looked around.

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

Ginza is a very vast area, divided into Ginza-1chome to Ginza-8chome streets. All eight chomes are connected by a central avenue. In fact, the intersection of the four chomes can be called the most prosperous and lively area of ​​the entire Ginza block, and it is also the location where the family is standing at this time.

I saw that this street, from south to north, was a modern building with a height of about ten floors but facing the side of the street that was more than 50 meters long. Keio Department Store Shinjuku Branch is a national large shopping center with a land of about 2,000 square meters in Ginza. Its unique and atmospheric shape can directly attract the attention of countless customers in the distance.

Next to its east is another dark blue shopping mall, which is also in the shape of a rectangular rectangular body after being folded down, and is about ten floors high, standing side by side with Keio Department Store. Two giants occupy a lot of space in this section.

And just further east of them, a well-organized rectangular building rose nearly a hundred meters above the ground, with a floor number of must not be less than twenty. From bottom to top, it is a specialty store with various products, and it is undoubtedly a big shopping center.

This is just the view of the intersection looking to one side. On the other three streets, there are large shopping malls of almost the same size everywhere. The street on the southeast side of Sichome where the family stood at this time was slightly exceptional. The most eye-catching thing was not another shopping mall, but a shrine and Tokyo's Ritsushishinjuku High School.

"Actually Vivi..."

Sophie looked at the prosperous scene around and said, "I think Ginza is pretty good now. If you really buy several sections of land and build a whole so-called commercial square, it will destroy the diversity now."

As she said that, she pointed around and said, "Look, the commercial street must be prosperous and lively, but wouldn't it be too monotonous if you follow your plan, a square occupies several hectares of area and covers five or six tall buildings with a unified style?"

Alice is a modest and good child, and this is the mother's words, so she thought about it carefully, touched her chin, and looked at the many buildings with different styles around her, but she didn't say anything for a moment.

Hannah also agreed with her mother's speech: "Mom makes sense, the commercial street makes it easy to attract customers. Like the kind you said before... it should be more appropriate for office buildings, right?"

This is indeed something that Alice cannot refute. As early as when she told her family about the idea of ​​"chain commercial real estate", she only said renting in terms of function, and it was not limited to whether it was for office buildings or shops. But in terms of architectural style, she easily summarized it in a simple sentence.

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

She nodded and said, "Customers are a very visual group. Unless they come to visit a certain shopping mall, they often go to the shopping mall to look at which shopping mall is beautiful. So, if the building I bought or built is used as a shop, the issue of diversity must be considered."

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

James led a large army to wander the streets. They walked north along the intersection of the four-chome and the six-chome. At this time, they had just crossed the intersection. Five hundred meters ahead of Central Avenue, they had three-chome and six-chome to stroll, and there was also an equally vast area in the horizontal direction. Although Tokyo was small, it was also very large.

"You see, according to Alice's idea, she wants to open this commercial square in the center of every country's big city. Then, every large city has many functional areas. If the square is located in a traditional central business district, such as the southern end of Manhattan, it is of course, as Alice said, six or seven standard skyscrapers that are hundreds of meters high."

As he said, he pointed his finger around: "But Ginza is a shopping mall, and have you seen it? There are almost no super high-rise buildings over 100 meters here. Hannah, Oscar, do you know why?"

The two children shook their heads in unison.

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

Hannah nodded vigorously: "I hate it!"

Oscar also nodded and said, "I'm here to go shopping, not to take the elevator."

James patted his son's head and smiled: "This is from the perspective of customers. From the perspective of architecture, large shopping malls are not suitable for high-rise buildings because of their large single-story area."

"First of all, in terms of fire protection partitions of buildings, high-rise buildings need to isolate too many fire protection areas, which of course will lead to the shopping center being unable to meet the needs of functions and a lot of waste. At the same time, in terms of evacuation of stairs, a large number of stairs are also needed to meet the evacuation requirements of each fire protection zone of each floor. In terms of proportion, the area ratio of stairwells and elevators is greatly increased, which is generally not economical."

"Finally, you think that having set up so many stairs and fireproof floors to connect all floors will definitely lead to supermarkets. Such large-area shopping malls cannot be effectively managed. You have also been to supermarkets, and there are generally not many entrances and exits. If you really build a shopping mall too high, it will be very troublesome."

While speaking, everyone was walking around Ginza. As James explained, even the tallest shopping mall would never be built into a super-high building of more than 100 meters. If it has twenty floors, it would be considered a property of a super-large consortium. And even this kind of quasi-high-rise shopping mall is a feature that only an island country like Japan has. No one can see the same situation in any city in the United States.

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

Sophie took the conversation. She saw Alice thinking about it with satisfaction, and saw the other two children looking humbly taught: "After all, the company's output value per unit area is much higher than that of shopping centers, and for the company, efficiency is everything. Office buildings with small unit area but many floors can concentrate the population, and use the vertical and horizontal traffic inside the building to greatly shorten the connection distance between departments and thus improve efficiency."

"At the same time, high-rise buildings are far away from the ground area, with better ventilation and higher air quality. Moreover, high-rise buildings are also a sign of the degree of urban development. That is to say, urban landmark buildings can attract large-scale business people to invest in local areas. Do you think so?"

Alice nodded steadily and agreed.

Indeed, office buildings full of companies are symbols of a city's wealth, and the more landmark the building, it can reflect the prosperity of a city and the strength of a company. Just like the Empire State Building, when countless Chinese people in the decades heard that Manhattan could actually build a 400-meter-high skyscraper in the 1930s, this incident can explain to everyone the most clearly that the prosperity of this city and the country is.

"So, this is also an early investment."
Chapter completed!