Zoning, which was designed to improve city life, eventually stifles it. Zoning laws keep people, their work and the services they need, apart from each other, creating islands of specificity that resist change.
Often times zoning laws keep you from doing the very things that you want a home and property for in the first place. Zoning is also designed to separate classes. Rich from poor and high from low. It's no wonder that most folks (except planning commissions) dislike their zoning laws.
In part four of How Buildings Learn, Brand explores these limitations and how people do (or don't) get around them.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
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