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Comments by "Ian Homer Pura" (@ianhomerpura8937) on "U.S. Zoning, Explained" video.
@Labyrinth6000 do you really think that all other countries do something like Kowloon Walled City? You're insane.
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@alexsmith-ob3lu urban planners want change, but rich people with real estate and the politicians they bribed (because lobbying in the US is basically legalized bribery) do not.
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@iguessishouldntputmynamehe5503 back then, only Anglo-Saxon Protestants were considered as whites. Even Italians and Irish were discriminated, especially since there were intense anti-Catholic sentiments back then (just reverse Inquisition, I guess).
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They only have 13 zones if I remember correctly, and that applies on a national level.
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@Gareth Faircloughit's just weird that some nutjobs in the UK hate the 15 minute city setup out of sheer parnaoia. And it's worse since those conspiracies are happening in a university town like Oxford.
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@alexsmith-ob3lu and is there something wrong with it?
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How?
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Why not go back to the previous mixed use system? It worked well before. Why not now?
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Then live in a farm in Wyoming 300 miles away from the nearest city. Get out of the suburbs if you're such a misanthrope. Live like how Kaczynski did.
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@Plan73 you might want to elaborate.
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Given how numerous Polish cities are rebuilding the mixed use historic districts destroyed during WW2, that might be a great idea. I just like how they rebuilt parts of Warsaw, Gdansk, and more recently, Wielun.
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But when state does legislate deregulation like in the case of zoning laws in California, you still hate it. I don't get why you Americans are so paranoid about government doing stuff.
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What are green area shortages?
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@iguessishouldntputmynamehe5503 and that only happened because they will be lynched by whites if ever they go into the wrong side of town, especially at the height of Jim Crow.
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