>>982200>Couldn't govt just jack up the price of land?Government is why sprawl happens. Its so much more expensive to build vertically than horizontally because of health and safety related regulations. Cities go horizontal because of regulation. Even single western city ends up going wider because of how zoning is done with lot sizes and land use. Look at the part of the world with the weakest governments and the least amounts of regulation, i.e. old pre industrial cities and the third world. It was always cheaper to add a new story on top of your house for the extended family. It was historically always cheaper to work from home, and live above your business like was done in almost every city the world over until recently. Modern zoning and city planning, coupled with transportation planning, creates sprawl where people would not normally create it themselves. GOVERNMENT ISNT THE ANSWER THE THE PROBLEM, GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM
