Re:The time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway
by pjlegato on Friday August 21, 2015 @07:40PM
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This is true. The zoning laws that led to suburbia were introduced in the 1910s and 1920s by well-meaning "progressives" who decried the ability of the rich to cloister themselves in country estates while the poor were forced to live among commerce in the city.
They won, and the result was the legislation of vast suburban "residential" zones where commercial business was prohibited, with minimum lot sizes and setbacks and minimum space between houses.
Re:The time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway
by Frondo on Friday August 21, 2015 @08:43PM
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Yeah, that's too bad. The wide-eyed liberal optimists got it wrong a hundred years ago. Shame that now the stodgy never-change-anything conservatives are clinging to that wrong idea from a hundred years ago, and once again the wide-eyed liberal optimists are trying to make it right!
Ironically, it was the wide-eyed liberal optimists of their day that inflicted suburbia on us. Disrupting how we built cities to that point was supposed to make everything better.