The USSR and pre-1978 Communist China are notable examples which are highlighted in Alain Bertaud’s Design without Order, but also modern zoning laws in the US and other first-world countries suffer from smaller, but still significant versions of this failure.
It seems like the US and other first-world countries have problem with the government making laws limiting density. I would expect the same for pre-1978 Communist China as Mao wasn’t a fan of cities and wanted to move production to the country-side.
From what I understand the USSR actually did manage to build high-story buildings under Khrushchev.
The USSR and pre-1978 Communist China are notable examples which are highlighted in Alain Bertaud’s Design without Order, but also modern zoning laws in the US and other first-world countries suffer from smaller, but still significant versions of this failure.
It seems like the US and other first-world countries have problem with the government making laws limiting density. I would expect the same for pre-1978 Communist China as Mao wasn’t a fan of cities and wanted to move production to the country-side.
From what I understand the USSR actually did manage to build high-story buildings under Khrushchev.