YIMBY: yes in my backyard Concepts

Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America

by Conor Dougherty · 18 Feb 2020 · 331pp · 95,582 words

back. People loved her. People hated her. They could not and would not ignore her. Sonja drove a glittery orange Crown Victoria, tweeted as @SFYIMBY (Yes in My Backyard), and would say things like NIMBYism is so entrenched and rooted in nostalgia that you could propose new apartments on an abandoned lot and still

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, xiii, xiv World War II, xiii, 40, 63, 65, 68, 145 Yahoo, 24 Y Combinator, 178–79 Yelp, 25–26, 29, 173 Yglesias, Matthew, 24 YIMBY (“yes in my backyard”), 27, 35, 38, 111, 127, 130, 131, 133, 136–38, 141–43, 186, 187, 190, 198, 200, 209–12, 214, 218–25, 228–31, 235

Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

by M. Nolan Gray · 20 Jun 2022 · 252pp · 66,183 words

housing; automobile dependency; commercial use; deed restriction; density; Houston, Texas; industrial use; land use regulation; minimum lot size; parking requirement; residential use; segregation; sprawl; sustainability; Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) ISBN-13: 978-1-64283-255-6 (electronic) For Mom and Dad— who moved to a city and made it all possible. Contents Introduction Part

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trickle of blogs and e-books would bring popular attention to the issue.2 In 2014, ideas turned into activism, with the nation’s first YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) groups emerging seemingly out of nowhere in the Bay Area, on a mission to fight for housing and rein in zoning. In short order, the

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steady trickle of zoning critiques have turned into a tidal wave of interest in reforming zoning. Thanks to an ideologically diverse coalition of pro-housing YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) activists, pro-growth developers, antisegregation progressives, and environmentally minded urbanists, zoning reform has unexpectedly emerged as a cause célèbre. Across the country, a diverse array

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the federal level, the push to reverse decades of federal support for exclusionary zoning now enjoys bipartisan support, as bills with unsubtle names like the Yes In My Backyard Act and the Build More Housing Near Transit Act wind their way through the US Congress. Once the definitive local issue, American urbanists increasingly look

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, DC, 59, 75, 99–100, 102 Westenhaver, David C., 28 Whitten, Robert, 84 World War I, 85 World War II, 85, 87 Wright, Will, 11 YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard), 51–52, 109 zoning annual loss of US wages caused by, 76 attempts to address land-use compatibility, 136–139 code, 34 defined, 34 districts

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

by Fareed Zakaria · 5 Oct 2020 · 289pp · 86,165 words

“the wrong people” to their neighborhood—often code for minorities. Recently, this NIMBYism has provoked a countermovement in California and beyond. These activists instead say YIMBY, Yes In My Backyard, and advocate for zoning reform, better mass transit, and more development to spur vibrant urbanism. Mayor Hidalgo’s plans follow this same vision of diversity

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Hidalgo’s Plan for a ‘15-Minute City’?,” Chicago Council on Global Affairs, February 24, 2020, https://youtu.be/55VkdnzGzhw. 139 YIMBY: Alana Semeuls, “From ‘Not in My Backyard’ to ‘Yes in My Backyard,’ ” Atlantic, July 5, 2017. 139 resoundingly reelected: “Hidalgo, Mayor since 2014, beat conservative candidate Rachida Dati in France’s municipal elections

Vanishing New York

by Jeremiah Moss · 19 May 2017 · 479pp · 140,421 words

New York, Justin Davidson returned to the topic, hosting a gentrification grudge match between me and Nikolai Fedak, the pro-development blogger of New York YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard). “The only unchanging constant in New York is change,” Fedak told us. “I think the city needs to evolve, and Jeremiah’s nostalgic for the

San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

by Michael Shellenberger · 11 Oct 2021 · 572pp · 124,222 words

housing in San Francisco and around the country has come from urban Millennial professionals who have formed a yes-in-my-backyard (YIMBY) movement to counter NIMBYs. In early 2018, state senator Scott Wiener from San Francisco introduced YIMBY-backed legislation that would have radically increased the number of apartments, condos, and duplexes near train and

Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World

by Sara C. Bronin · 30 Sep 2024 · 230pp · 74,949 words

mention. As in many zoning battles, a clear division separated the “not-in-my-backyard” (NIMBY) opponents of change from the pro-housing, “yes-in-my-backyard” (YIMBY) proponents. The NIMBY-YIMBY debate is a national one, but it plays out in hundreds of local zoning decisions on specific projects and on proposed amendments to the

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, 64, 91–92 Wright, Frank Lloyd, 99 Broadacre City, 126–30 on green roofs, 132–33 Taliesin West, 128–30 Wu, Michelle, 114 Wyoming, 88 “yes-in-my-backyard” (YIMBY), 82–83 Young, Neil, 109 “zone lots,” 146–47, 204 zoning, 1–11, 166–73 for accessory uses, 56, 113, 186 advocates of its abolition

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

by Henry Grabar · 8 May 2023 · 413pp · 115,274 words

who wanted to see new buildings everywhere. Free marketeers who wanted dynamic parking pricing, and good-government advocates who wanted revenue for public improvements. The “yes in my backyard” (YIMBY) prohousing activists. The small-city restorationists of the Strong Towns movement. Architects who subscribed to the Congress for New Urbanism, the movement for traditional town

One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger

by Matthew Yglesias · 14 Sep 2020

and sustain enduring coalitions. But most current proposals are flawed in at least one of two ways. One trap, shared by Senator Todd Young’s Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) Act and Senator Cory Booker’s campaign proposal, is excessive focus on Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) as levers for incentivizing change. These proposals arise

EcoVillage at Ithaca Pioneering a Sustainable Culture (2005)

by Liz Walker · 20 May 2005

Ithaca. He saw it as an opportunity to show some civic spirit. Rather than taking a Not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) attitude, he advocated a Yes-in-my-backyard (YIMBY) approach. In his view a water tank was fairly innocuous. Other communities had had to accept sewer treatment plants or coal-fired plants. We would

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at EVI and coordinates village-wide decisions between FROG and SONG. YIMBY: Coined by an EVI resident to refer to an attitude in which people would welcome the presence of a water tank near to where they live. Derived from “Yes in My Backyard.” ECOVILLAGE AT ITHACA TIMELINE 1990 • The Global Walk for a Livable

Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism

by Wendy Liu · 22 Mar 2020 · 223pp · 71,414 words

,210 units. Most of the housing debates here bounce between two poles, NIMBYism (Not In My Backyard) and YIMBYism (Yes In My Backyard). The mainstream assumption is that you’re either a pro-developer YIMBY, or you’re selfish and don’t want any new houses to be built. The pro-developer argument goes something