How the modern world became so ugly & 7 ways to fix it

And what you and your modern city can do about it

Jarrod Zenjiro Suda
UX Collective
Published in
5 min readAug 19, 2022

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A little bit of beauty shines above the Nishijin Textile Center through the sea of Kyoto concrete, Kyoto.
(Jarrod Suda. A little bit of beauty shines above the Nishijin Textile Center through the sea of Kyoto concrete, Kyoto. Fujifilm X-T20. 2018.)

With my own eyes, I witnessed the beauty of Kyoto — Japan’s cultural and spiritual capital — slip through the cracks of brutal post-modern urbanization.

Yet through the concrete jungle, the farmland encroachment, and the dangling electrical lines, stories of…

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Akiya Company co-founder exploring history, political philosophy & travel to learn what it means to live a good life & progress on our startup journey to Japan.