Zoning and Fashion? Amanda Burden in Vanity Fair

Reporter John Hellpern asked, "For a layperson like myself, please explain what zoning actually means."

"It's a three-dimensional blueprint for what any area of a city can be,” she [Burden] obliged. "It's about how high and wide the buildings should be, what uses they can have, the correct width of the sidewalk, the shops along it, the trees planted, whether it really feels like a neighborhood you want to walk in and bike in, maybe want to live in and invest in."