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by SECProto 1589 days ago
> I'll gesture vaguely at "the suburbs". Low trust and alienation describes

I agree with this for sure, and such zoning issues have been pointed to as the root cause of other societal ills dating back to (at least) Jane Jacobs' 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_Am...