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Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Reason Express
28 September 2004 - 1:00pm

Is zoning being used to gradually purify New York City and other big cities?

"Under Michael Bloomberg, alas, my erstwhile home continues its gradual transmogrification into a theme park parody of itself: ManhattanLand, an island of smokeless, sterile cafes where Times Square is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Disney corporation... While the news focuses on the neopuritanism of those who see unhealthy living as the cardinal sin, New York's transformation began with a dose of the more old fashioned sort: zoning regulations..."

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Source: Reason Online, September 27, 2004
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