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No zoning is also how you get a city like Houston where there are churches next to skyscrapers next to liquor stores in downtown and sprawling strip malls for m
by plants 8y ago
No zoning is also how you get a city like Houston where there are churches next to skyscrapers next to liquor stores in downtown and sprawling strip malls for miles everywhere else
- zjaffee 8y agoHouston has zoning though in the form of very high parking requirements, and it's exactly why there are sprawling strip malls for miles. A better example of what a city without zoning would look like is New York (since most of the buildings were built before modern zoning locked what was there historically in place), but especially the tenement districts of the lower east side.
- nikanj 8y agoManhattan has churches next to skyscrapers next to liquor stores, and nobody seems too bothered
- Dirlewanger 8y agoBecause you don't need a car to get to most places. Houston is the antithesis of NYC in terms of urban planning.
- orangecat 8y agoAnd that works better than you might expect. You'll probably need a car, but the places you need to regularly go are nearby so you don't spend a lot of time in traffic, and housing is cheap enough so that you'll likely be able to live close to work.