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by tptacek 1043 days ago
Single-family zoning in America isn't really a city planning decision the way we think it is; virtually all American single-family zoning occurred in the early 20th century as a reaction to Buchanan v. Warley, which outlawed racial zoning codes; single-family zoning was a way to retain prohibitions on Black residents without having the zoning code literally say that.