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Green belts and other limits on outward growth cannot explain European house prices, because densification would have supplied nearly all the same homes.

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housing What a place to live costs and why: how much gets built, zoning, and who is blamed for the price.

What Samuel Hughes actually said

  1. Samuel Hughes Editor at Works in Progress writing on architecture
    But this effect is far too small to explain the increase in house prices in Europe since 1914, when, after all, most urban continental Europeans lived in flats.

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