Huston is not that different, because it has a lot of other regulations that in effect do the same. (There's just less traditional land use "zoning".) https://

Huston is not that different, because it has a lot of other regulations that in effect do the same. (There's just less traditional land use "zoning".) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaU1UH_3B5k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaU1UH_3B5k Not just scarcity, but the lack of mixed use development, the lack of high efficiency city logistics (moving people, people's belongings, food/freight/cargo to shops/restaurants and bigger stores) prevent most US cities from being adequately flexible enough to adapt to changing economic patterns. (And to allow innovating new patterns, etc.) Not to mention that most metro areas are a zigzag patchwork of planning jurisdictions, and all of these municipalities are incentivized to push certain stuff away from them.