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It developed organically over Four Hundred Years. 400 years. Four Hundred Years.
by quickthrowman 2y ago
It developed organically over Four Hundred Years. 400 years. Four Hundred Years.
- voisin 2y agoGood point. Better point: zoning wasn’t a thing for… ~340 of years. People could largely do what they want and co-located uses was the name of the game. Central planning doesn’t fucking work.
- MagnumOpus 2y agoZoning was definitely a thing since time immemorial (and 5000 years before that). Zoning was enforced by the Count or Lord or Guildhall, and you can bet your bottom dollar that nobody was allowed to run a tannery right next to the ducal palace or Market Square. Zoning laws are a more recent invention, and zoning laws combined with financial leverage and green belts/density limits for maximum real estate price pain only cropped up as an innovation in the 20th century.
- voisin 2y agoOk, I agree with everything you’ve written, but my point was that New York didn’t develop under the zoning laws that we have had since the 1950s municipal central planning paradigm.