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Urban planning is probably as old as cities. Based on my limited experience, European planners just focus more on actual planning than mere zoning. When an are
by jltsiren 5y ago
Urban planning is probably as old as cities. Based on my limited experience, European planners just focus more on actual planning than mere zoning.
When an area is being (re)developed, the planners try to figure out many of the details. How should be public transport and parking organized? Where are the walking and biking routes? Where should the parks and commercial spaces be? And so on. Older European cities are not as much organically grown as planned and replanned over centuries.
- bennysomething 5y agoYou might be right, but there was an interesting thing on BBC radio 4 s few years ago, an British architect who grew up in Lebanon explained that he thought the UK should bin it's planners completely as all that had been built post ww2 when that arm of government was created, was monstrosities or at best only allow the equivalent of music's James blunt records. Not great but at least boring and acceptible.