Spot on. I think zoning is a big part of it. It would be illegal to build most of the world’s desirable cities now. Local zoning requires less mixed use, wider

Spot on. I think zoning is a big part of it. It would be illegal to build most of the world’s desirable cities now. Local zoning requires less mixed use, wider streets, more mandatory parking, etc My dense, desirable neighbourhood in montreal couldn’t be build elsewhere in north america. But itnisn’t a safety ir code thing. The local zoning is actually reasonable: it’s just the laws are more anti-urbanist elsewhere.