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>Government policies didn't create suburbs It is exactly the opposite. American suburbs were created by goverment policies (specifically, by certain tax breaks

• bitwize 10y ago
  ...To give whites a place to go to git away from them coloreds. Racism, or more broadly classism -- the refusal to come together in community and the tendency to draw bright lines between self and other, and order society so as to only have to deal with people like self while avoiding other -- is at the very heart of American social structure, at all levels.
• WildUtah 10y ago
  Minimum parking mandates are the law most forceful in mandating suburbs. National finance regulations contribute. Concentration on freeway funding is part of it. Setback requirements and floor area ratios require suburbia also. Single use zoning adds up, too.