van Mises wrote: "if a man has been run over by a car, it doesn't help to run it back over him in the opposite direction" Laws have supported the current norms

van Mises wrote: "if a man has been run over by a car, it doesn't help to run it back over him in the opposite direction" Laws have supported the current norms in urban architecture for half a century. It is therefore the case that there are many more suburban homes and fewer city homes than the market would bear under a different regime. Changes to the regulatory situation would mean that a great deal of capital must be reallocated, and the costs will be absorbed by homeowners, i.e. innocent people. Urbanists must keep this in mind: what works in the long term will hurt in the transition.