>Houston is rarely held up as an example of good land use planning. The plan in 1837 was to sell the land. To people who wanted to come to the intended capita

>Houston is rarely held up as an example of good land use planning. The plan in 1837 was to sell the land. To people who wanted to come to the intended capital & industrial center of the new republic, after it won independence from Mexico. That's a wide variety of buyers, many of whom were expected to do things with their land that had never been done before. No surprise that without further planning, it turned out better for citizens than alternatives. Maybe it goes to show that the planning often seen elsewhere is crafted more to the disadvantage of citizens than none at all.