On Aug 14, 2007, at 7:51 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> Politics isn't rational, always, but according to the
> Columbia Encyclopedia, the first zoning in the US was
> in NYC and wasn't racist in intent
No, but it was "classist," to use the 90s term. The whole point of the first code was to get factories and the smelly workers who filled them out of the posher parts of midtown Manhattan. The would be pushed outward from the central business district for the next nine decades.
Doug