Indeed, laws and structural (backbone) planning are necessary and complimentary. However as others have pointed out and (I saw them while reading further down

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.