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American cities don't like to mix commercial and residential zoning. If you had a mix, you'd see more places with grocery stores you could walk to, like in Lond

• yardie 8y ago
  They don't like to but they are doing it now. They have no choice as a younger demographic is clamoring for it and developers are responding by getting zoning for it. If a city isn't planning with mixed use, mid/high density housing in mind then I'm not sure I'd call them a city.
• lgregg 8y ago
  I'm not sure which cities your referring too but even in towns like where my Dad grew up, a population of 40k, they're beginning to zone mix-use in urban areas. As yardie mentioned, there is a huge demand for mix-use properties. To keep with Chicago as an example, I lived near a large area of small mutli-family (Du/Quad-plex or multi-story flats) and large single-family homes. There was plenty of commercial space but there was a huge local demand for mix-use property which led to it being developed. Called "New City" it was a tower on top of a movie theatre, a grocery store, with surrounding retail and restaurants.[0] [0] https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9086253,-87.6488544,17z https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9086253,-87.6488544,17z & http://experiencenewcity.com/ http://experiencenewcity.com/ I wouldn't be surprised to see more zoning like that in small to medium cities, however, it's likely they would be more like landscrapers than skyscrapers.