Yes to the City (eBook)

Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing

Max Holleran (Autor)

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2022
216 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23471-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A fascinating account of the growing Yes in My Backyard urban movement The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world. A growing number of influential activists aren't waiting for new public housing to be built. Instead, they're calling for more construction and denser cities in order to increase affordability. Yes to the City offers an in-depth look at the ';Yes in My Backyard' (YIMBY) movement. From its origins in San Francisco to its current cadre of activists pushing for new apartment towers in places like Boulder, Austin, and London, Max Holleran explores how urban density, once maligned for its association with overpopulated slums, has become a rallying cry for millennial activists locked out of housing markets and unable to pay high rents.Holleran provides a detailed account of YIMBY activists campaigning for construction, new zoning rules, better public transit, and even candidates for local and state office. YIMBY groups draw together an unlikely coalition, from developers and real estate agents to environmentalists, and Holleran looks at the increasingly contentious battles between market-driven pragmatists and rent-control idealists. Arguing that advocates for more housing must carefully weigh their demands for supply with the continuing damage of gentrification, he shows that these individuals see high-density urbanism and walkable urban spaces as progressive statements about the kind of society they would like to create.Chronicling a major shift in housing activism during the past twenty years, Yes to the City considers how one movement has reframed conversations about urban growth.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.7.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Baurecht (privat)
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Affordability of housing in the United Kingdom • Affordable Housing • Bay Area Council • Betterment • Big Government • Billboard • Buy-in • Central Business District • City Manager • City of • commercial area • Commercial district • Commuter town • Cosmopolitanism • creative city • culture industry • decentralization • Elite Status • Enterprise journalism • Fair Housing Act • fixer-upper • FreedomWorks • Free Market • Gentrification • Gilded Age • Global City • Great Leap Forward • Great Society • Heart of the City (development) • Heart of the City (Kaliningrad) • Hippie • Housing • Housing authority • Housing First • Housing for All • Inception • Inclusionary zoning • inner city • Inner suburb • Innovation • Internationalization • London • Manhattanization • Manifest Destiny • metropolitan area • Mortgage belt • Municipal services • Nationalization • New Urbanism • Next City • NIMBY • occupy movement • occupy wall street • Octavia Hill • Pedestrian zone • Planned community • political capital • Property Manager • Public housing • Public sphere • Public Transport • Real Estate • Real estate appraisal • Real Estate Development • Residential Area • Retail • Sanctuary City • Sex and the City • Skyscraper • Smart City • Streetcar suburb • suburb • sustainable city • technocracy • The Gateway Pundit • The Iconic • The Logic of Life • Think Big • Townhouse • Townhouse (Great Britain) • Urban Art • Urban Culture • Urban Density • Urban Economics • Urban Geography • Urban growth boundary • Urban History • Urbanism • urbanity • urbanization • urban planner • urban planning • Urban renewal • Urban sociology • urban sprawl • Utopia • YIMBY • zoning
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23471-X / 069123471X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23471-7 / 9780691234717