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I'm not the GP but I would suppose this comes down to if you have a philosophical objection to cities being engineered or not. I personally think that they shou

I'm not the GP but I would suppose this comes down to if you have a philosophical objection to cities being engineered or not. I personally think that they should be. If the quality of life of citizens of a city is better served by having limitations on this kind of short-let activity, then I think it's reasonable that city managers should have the ability to impose those limitations. If you believe in Laissez Faire, or that the market should be allowed free rein to shape or society, you would perhaps disagree.

golergka 10y ago
> quality of life of citizens While I can agree to some extent to this being the metric optimized, this metric depends on who gets to be a citizen. For example, the situation when the city becomes too expensive for particular class of people and they move out leads to increased in quality of life of remaining citizen, but people (not me) usually express negative views on this.
- paublyrne 10y ago
  Poor people leaving a city increases the quality of life for (richer) people that remain? That's not the obvious result of gentrification. I didn't say cities should optimise for quality of life, but quality of life should be an important consideration in the generation of policy. Other factors like cultural diversity also need to be taken into account, as well as mixing people with different income levels. I have found apartments in Berlin, for instance, that I was unable to rent because they had maximum income caps (and very low ones).
  - golergka 10y ago
    > Poor people leaving a city increases the quality of life for (richer) people that remain? That's true, but not what I meant: by changing the group you measure the metric over, you change the value of the metric.