NIMBYs, YIMBYs, and the Politics of Land Use in American Cities

NR Brouwer, J Trounstine - Annual Review of Political Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Debates over the development and density of housing have gained visibility in recent years
as housing costs have skyrocketed in many metropolitan areas. With those who seek to limit …

The NIMBY problem

D Foster, J Warren - Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
City governments take into account congestion costs of increasing city size, but not the
productivity gains that could be secured by residents of smaller cities moving to larger cities. Our …

Contesting density: beyond nimby-ism and usual suspects in governing the future city

J Robinson, K Attuyer - Urban Geography, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… over height and density are simply NIMBY-ist. This criticism obscures … city which is liveable
across the generations. These are struggles for the democratic governance of the future city

Reassessing NIMBY: The demographics, politics, and geography of opposition to high-density residential infill

AH Whittemore, TK BenDor - Journal of Urban Affairs, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… data have shown that more commuters in cities of these regions use transportation modes
… evidence elsewhere concerning the relationship between age and NIMBY-type behaviors. …

NIMBYism as a barrier to housing and social mix in San Francisco

G McNee, D Pojani - Journal of housing and the built environment, 2022 - Springer
NIMBY (‘Not In My Backyard’) proponents versus other voices at public hearings San Francisco,
a city … , San Francisco has become the most expensive city in the US, which caters to a …

Constitutional Law for NIMBYs: A Review of" Principles of Home Rule for the 21st Century" by the National League of Cities

D Schleicher - Ohio St. LJ, 2020 - HeinOnline
Home rule comes in waves. In the twentieth century, there were two such waves, one in the
Progressive Era and another following a model state constitutional amendment proposed by …

PLANNERS'ALCHEMY ACHIEVED? HOW NIMBY AND YIMBY REPRODUCE THE HOUSING QUESTION

BF Teresa - International Journal of Urban and Regional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… , such as in many cities in the US Midwest. Here the … cities as sites for zoning reform, then
we are just back to where we started, which is that the form that the region takes and the NIMBY

NIMBY (not in my backyard) conflicts: a simple game-theoretic analysis

S Eguchi - Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2020 - Springer
… an optimistic view that NIMBY conflicts can be … NIMBY conflicts remain unresolved. In
particular, these analyses suppose implicitly that the residents, local jurisdictions, and/or cities in …

From NIMBY to BIMBY: An evaluation of aesthetic appearance and social sustainability of MSW incineration plants in China

JW Lu, Y Xie, B Xu, Y Huang, J Hai, J Zhang - Waste Management, 2019 - Elsevier
… In recent years, aesthetic appearances are paid much more attention to, especially in large
cities which are troubled by NIMBY syndrome. For example, the facade renovation of Yantian …

Is NIMBY inevitable? An empirical exploration of determinants of public attitudes towards unwanted facilities using nationally representative data in China

Y Zhou, S Chen, Q Cui - Applied Economics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
… of NIMBY facilities in the city increases by 8.8%, and a 1% increment in household income
increases the odds of residents refusing the construction of NIMBY facilities in the city