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Why would a city do that? To make you personally feel better?
by JPws_Prntr_Fngr 4y ago
Why would a city do that? To make you personally feel better?
- telotortium 4y agoMaybe to ensure that the country is evenly developed, which would make housing more affordable across the entire country. The US is not even that bad - unlike many other countries, it doesn't have a true primate city[1] on a national level. I'm thinking of places like England, where the privileged areas of London (and the Home Counties), Oxford, and Cambridge are the only place to earn a decent salary, but have extortionate housing costs, while the rest of the country has much lower housing costs but such lower wages that people are pushed to migrate into the privileged areas, pushing housing costs there even higher. Densifying the cities would help to some extent, but construction tends to cost a lot more in these cities, and not entirely due to zoning, planning permissions, etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate_city https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate_city