Euclidean Zoning: How Our ‘Arbitrary and Oppressive’ City Planning Scheme Got Its Name

Is it named after the father of geometry or a Cleveland suburb? Both.

The urban planners of the 1920s might have thought they could carefully regulate the modern industrial city to everyone’s benefit. Instead, zoning codes have grown more “arbitrary and oppressive.”

https://reason.com/2026/08/17/euclidean-zoning

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