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Episode: Samuel Hughes on The Great Downzoning
Description: Podcast: Works in Progress Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Samuel Hughes on The Great DownzoningPub date: 2025-06-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBefore the twentieth century, most cities were highly permissive about what people were allowed to build on their land. Nearly all Western householders lost these liberties during the first half of the twentieth century. Samuel Hughes calls this phenomenon The Great Downzoning. In the first episode of the Works in Progress Podcast, he describes how and why this hap...