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You can look to Houston, TX as a control group of what development and urban growth looks like without zoning laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning_in_the_

• mjevans 7y ago
  Indeed, laws and structural (backbone) planning are necessary and complimentary. However as others have pointed out and (I saw them while reading further down after) I also replied about Japanese style zoning, which is based on a combination of large scale planning and allowing "Up to X nuisance" in a zone and otherwise letting market forces dictate what actually gets build.
• SamReidHughes 7y ago
  A city full of mansions, with lobster, selling for $200-300K.
• neilparikh 7y ago
  Houston does have polices that have a similar effect to zoning though (parking minimums). > Also, the city has enacted development regulations that specify how lots are subdivided, standard setbacks, and parking requirements. The regulations have contributed to the city's automobile-dependent sprawl, by requiring the existence of large minimum residential lot sizes and large commercial parking lots.