Total free market would be to allow a 10 story apartment building - for example - to be plopped in the middle of neighborhood of detached single family homes.
Maybe I miss your point. Happy to have clarification.
Yes, that would be total free market.
If you don’t want a 10 story apt bldg plopped down next to your single family house, then buy the property next door.
That is free market.
The other option is to support zoning and central planning of development and try through the democratic process to sway the decisions to the type of development you want to see next door. But if you do that, then you have to accept that others may also sway the decisions to a type of development you may not like.
It’s hypocritical to not admit that this is the case. Zoning is a government process and it is subject to the whims of the democratic vote and/or corruption of the officials that run zoning. Everyone overlooks this when things are going the way they want them to go (for example when zoning is setting minimum lot sizes, minimum house sizes, only allowing single family homes, etc) but they they cry havoc when things do not go their way ... (high rise apartments, etc.)
You can’t have it both ways. If you support zoning and central planning as a process for setting development patterns that you like and approve of, you’ve also sided with an anti-free market approach that opens the door to zoning and central planning that will NOT be what you want.