> Freedom to build for commercial construction would also mean more neighborhoods where office buildings, shops and residences stand next to each other
Yes please! Mix it all up and let the city live. My neighborhood is almost like this - the residential zones are crisscrossed by commercial streets at a high enough density that you don't need to walk far to get out of the housing-only areas - but it could be even better, and far more of the city should work this way.
> urbanists should pursue the liberalization of existing commercial zones to allow for a plethora of other uses, including housing.
What a clever inversion. Of course we should do this.
Yes please! Mix it all up and let the city live. My neighborhood is almost like this - the residential zones are crisscrossed by commercial streets at a high enough density that you don't need to walk far to get out of the housing-only areas - but it could be even better, and far more of the city should work this way.
> urbanists should pursue the liberalization of existing commercial zones to allow for a plethora of other uses, including housing.
What a clever inversion. Of course we should do this.