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Key to the city

How zoning shapes our world

by LINTON J
Published in March 2026 - Page 43

Sara C. Bronin
W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 2024
224 pages
ISBN: 978-0-393-88166

Sara Bronin is an architect, lawyer, and urban planning scholar, as well as the former chair of the Hartford, Conn., zoning commission. In Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, she suggests that zoning – the rules that dictate how land is used in cities – is one of the most powerful but underappreciated forces shaping

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