the city I live in has over million inhabitants, but the tallest building in town is less than 30 stories, and it is one of only a handful of structures that are over five stories. There was a law on the books (and some variants of it are still in place) to limit the height of buildings so as not to spoil people's views of the surrounding mountains...and now we sprawl across three times as much space as we should. Fucking foolishness.
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