The 'Berlin Wall of Detroit', which is depicted in the article photo was moreso a product of a private developer not so much zoning but yet condoned at large.
Fairfield (CT) needs a suburban planner soooo badly. We have his zoners who we call planners and pay for them like their planners but we don't have planning.
It's frustrating how many planners will correctly point out the POSIWID of traffic engineering (e.g. Level of Service analysis) but be unwilling to look at their own industry's systems of destruction.
We can do better but that’s mostly a dodge. Zoning killed people from inception by mandating car trips with out funding to pay for safety. Hundreds of thousands of deaths.
What weve lost is our collective creativity. Imagine a world where you could invest a portion of your 401k to an incremental developer in your neighborhood. You would want a return on your money but you'd also sit in on the board meetings and have some input into what your community looked like.
This is fantastic. Thank you for writing what I’ve been meaning to write but never have gotten around to writing. This is a massive part of why I left the U.S. for more Dionysian pastures.
That Escalated Quickly
This is great summary Andy. Zoning created car centrism and all the associated negative effects.
State reforms so desperately needed.
I’d also recommend the book The Color of Law.
Thanks Dan.
The 'Berlin Wall of Detroit', which is depicted in the article photo was moreso a product of a private developer not so much zoning but yet condoned at large.
Can you reference a book on this? You state the negative effects of zoning but you didn't have the space to actually make an argument.
I took the space to point out the purpose of zoning is what it does. One recent book is Arbitrary Lines by M. Nolan Gray.
Fairfield (CT) needs a suburban planner soooo badly. We have his zoners who we call planners and pay for them like their planners but we don't have planning.
I would be interested in helping. Send me an email at ctyplnr@bex.net. My name is Rob.
What a great concise summary of the problem.
It's frustrating how many planners will correctly point out the POSIWID of traffic engineering (e.g. Level of Service analysis) but be unwilling to look at their own industry's systems of destruction.
We can do better but that’s mostly a dodge. Zoning killed people from inception by mandating car trips with out funding to pay for safety. Hundreds of thousands of deaths.
What weve lost is our collective creativity. Imagine a world where you could invest a portion of your 401k to an incremental developer in your neighborhood. You would want a return on your money but you'd also sit in on the board meetings and have some input into what your community looked like.
This is fantastic. Thank you for writing what I’ve been meaning to write but never have gotten around to writing. This is a massive part of why I left the U.S. for more Dionysian pastures.