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Zoning is a European invention: German and Austro-Hungarian cities wrote the first rules protecting rich suburbs from denser building.

Drawn from what Samuel Hughes said

SubjectsEuropehousing
What this subject means

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

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What Samuel Hughes actually said

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  1. Samuel Hughes

    Editor at Works in Progress writing on architecture

    In fact, zoning was invented in Europe, in Germany and Austria-Hungary, in the late nineteenth century.

    Where this was said

    ↗Europe's housing shortages are even worse than America'sworksinprogress.news

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