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It's not about communism but the centralized absolute power. When government is the one and only player in the game, it makes all the calls and can fully contro
by ivanhoe 7y ago
It's not about communism but the centralized absolute power. When government is the one and only player in the game, it makes all the calls and can fully control all the aspects and plan every detail of peoples lives, construction, organization of life. It's a good thing for urbanism and infrastructure planning, and not so good thing for pretty much everything else.
- jwr 7y agoThis. You can have good urban planning anywhere, if you agree on laws and enforce them. The reason why urban planning is worse in Poland than it used to be is because there was no focus on zoning laws and planning was neglected for many years. Mind you, this is not accidental in any way: there was (and is) a concerted effort to prevent new zoning laws, or at least delay them as much as possible.