Shertzer, Allison; Twinam, Tate; Walsh, Randall P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent work has argued that zoning is responsible for racial segregation, disparities in public goods provision … regulation's effects suggests a crucial need for historical perspective to understand how zoning has shaped cities over the long … term. This essay places the introduction of zoning in the broader context of urban development in the early twentieth …