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by astrange 405 days ago
In the US, it's mostly because the urban planning field was extremely embarrassed about "urban renewal" (rightly so) and switched to a new ideology that just completely forbids ever doing anything in case it's bad for anyone.

It's also partly because they read The Population Bomb in the 70s and literally decided to ban housing/transit in order to stop people from having kids.