What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to
addressing debilitating housing shortages, stunted growth and
innovation, persistent racial and economic segregation, and
car-dependent development? It’s time for America to move beyond
zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How
Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively
explanations and stories, Gray shows why zoning abolition is a
necessary—if not sufficient—condition for building more
affordable, vibrant, equitable, and sustainable cities. The
arbitrary lines of zoning maps across the country have come to
dictate where Americans may live and work, forcing cities into a
pattern of growth that is segregated and sprawling. The good news
is that it doesn’t have to be this way. Reform is in the air,
with cities and states across the country critically re-evaluating
zoning. In cities as diverse as Minneapolis, Durham, and Hartford,
the key pillars of zoning are under fire, with apartment bans being
scrapped, minimum lot sizes dropping, and off-street parking
requirements disappearing altogether. Some American
cities—including Houston, America’s fourth-largest
city—already make land-use planning work without zoning. In
Arbitrary Lines, Gray lays the groundwork for this ambitious cause
by clearing up common confusions and myths about how American
cities regulate growth and examining the major contemporary
critiques of zoning. Gray sets out some of the efforts currently
underway to reform zoning and charts how land-use regulation might
work in the post-zoning American city. Despite mounting interest,
no single book has pulled these threads together for a popular
audience. In Arbitrary Lines, Gray fills this gap by showing how
zoning has failed to address even our most basic concerns about
urban growth over the past century, and how we can think about a
new way of planning a more affordable, prosperous, equitable, and
sustainable American city.
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