Zoning State of Mind

If we could do it, we can do it

I had an interesting thought recently, while I was idly staring at my phone: zoning is like the internet and smartphones. Once it’s ubiquitous, it becomes very difficult to imagine how we did anything before or without it.

We know we did, and we can plainly see it all around us—our parents, people who don’t use smartphones, places built long before zonin…