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by tuatoru 974 days ago
Yes of course people know this. But policymakers "flatten" knowledge when making policy. See James C. Scott's "Seeing Like A State" for discussion of how this plays out in development projects.

What we have got is exactly what we can expect.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State

Required reading for anyone who seeks to understand what happens at the scale of a city, or larger.