A student of Holford at Liverpool claimed that Holford insisted of two means probably from USSR on controlling urban growth and correct urban illness: a) town and country planning law, b) zoning. But zoning is not a British invention nor practice. Zoning originated in Prussia and formalized in the US.
For the concept of zoning I would have assumed that Le Corbusier and the CIAM organization were mainly responsible. Interesting with this angle of Prussia being the origin. Please expand.
In mainstream planning, Corbu and CIAM are not considered important. Their contributions are framed by architects and urban designers, not planners. The Euclid case is the establishment of constitutionality of zoning by the US Supreme Court based on the legal argument of police power to control nuisance. Before that, Goodrich in NY and his associated established the zoning code for NYC. But earlier attempt using zoning was in California in the 1880s to exclude Chinese laborers. Zoning also exported to Japan in the late 19th century. Through colonization of Korea and Taiwan, the system was established. The Chinese planning pioneers started discussing zoning in the 1920s. Also planning and zonning are about use, connection, flow, employment; CIAM folks had a shallow understanding of city functions. The earlier attempt on planning was in public health on trashes, drinking water, sewage, and diseases control.
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