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# Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation

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    myth-busting
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2015*

This book destroys a variety of myths about American land use and zoning.One common myth is that home ownership is "the American Dream"- more common in the U.S. than elsewhere.  Not so!  Hirt shows that 65 percent of American housing is owner-occupied- less than the European Union average (70 percent), Canada or Australia.  Moreover, many American homes are effectively owned by banks through mortgages; 45 percent of U.S.  houses have a mortgage, while the European Union average is 27 percent.  The major difference between the U.S. and other democracies is that Americans generally live in either detached houses or apartments, while in some other countries the middle-ground housing of attached single-family homes (such as duplexes and rowhouses) is more common.Another common myth is that U.S. zoning is less restrictive than European zoning.  In fact, American zones tend to rigidly separate land uses; the majority of residential land is devoted to single-family housing, and single-family houses can almost never be in the same zone as businesses or multifamily housing.  By contrast, other nations regulate by intensity of use but not so much by type of use; for example, Germany's most common residential zone, "general residential", allows multifamily housing and retail uses as long as they are on a small, neighborhood-serving scale. Land-rich Canada and Australia tend to be more like the United States, but nevertheless are more flexible, usually allowing smaller houses than most American cities.Why were Americans so willing to accept such strict regulation?  Hirt explains that in the early 20th century, pro-zoning interests argued that zoning was a means of increasing homeowners' property values and excluding lower socio-economic classes.  In other words, middle-class Americans perceived zoning as a license to print money.  Hirt also suggests that Americans were more willing to subjectively believe that single-family houses were special and superior- perhaps because most Americans were only a generation or two removed from rural life.

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*by A***G on Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2021*

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    Great read
  

*by E***A on Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2020*

I enjoyed reading this book. I don’t have any education in the field of land use, and I was able to understand it. It taught me a lot about the history of zoning in the world and its inception and development in different developed countries.

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