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It isn't outlawed in most places, it's just that profit-driven property developers, often building outside city limits threw up malls quickly so they could rake
by Vrondi 5y ago
It isn't outlawed in most places, it's just that profit-driven property developers, often building outside city limits threw up malls quickly so they could rake in the greater immediate profit from retail spaces vs housing. They'd have been permitted in most of the USA to include apartments from the start if they'd deemed it profitable enough.
- mcv 5y agoI'm hardly an expert on this, but I've heard that many places in the US have quite restrictive zoning laws that don't allow mixing residential and commercial buildings, require massive parking lots, only single family homes, and lots of roads.