@mpjgregoire Car-bound retail in North America is a racket with competition suppressed through large swaths of land being owned by one landlord and that landlord being willing to sell prime locations to large corporate chains with the added bonus of anti-competitive covenants.
The traditional dynamic of a city (think back 100 years when there were little if any land use bylaws) with property owners only owning small parcels making landlords compete with one-another is choked.
@virtuous_sloth I agree that it was a mistake to design our cities around cars, and I'm mostly opposed to zoning. Empirically though, is it true that property ownership in (let's say) downtown Toronto is more concentrated now than it was in 1926? Could be true, I'm not sure.
Our laws and governments should work harder to encourage competition.
