Saloni: But cities used to be affordable, and with lighter building regulations, they built fast and densified very quickly. Why did that end? What brought about 'the Great Downzoning'? Samuel Hughes evaluates the theories in a great new piece for Works in Progress. worksinprogress.co/issue/the-gr...

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But cities used to be affordable, and with lighter building regulations, they built fast and densified very quickly. Why did that end? What brought about 'the Great Downzoning'? Samuel Hughes evaluates the theories in a great new piece for Works in Progress. worksinprogress.co/issue/the-gr...
The Great Downzoning - Works in Progress Magazine

It was once legal to build almost anything, anywhere. Then, in the space of a few decades, nearly every city in the West banned densification.

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Pharmageddon handle.invalid · Nov 29, 2025
Touching on some of the history of city size y'all describe, have y'all heard about the Marchetti Constant? It's claimed that the size of cities was historically limited by commute time (a constant of about 30 mins) & therefore in turn by tech. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The History of Cities Is About How We Get to Work

From ancient Rome to modern Atlanta, the shape of cities has been defined by the technologies that allow commuters to get to work in about 30 minutes.

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Pharmageddon handle.invalid · Nov 29, 2025
Not sure how much empirical truth there is to it, but an amusing if not interesting notion.

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