The Deleted Scenes - Old Wisdom, New Movement
I frequently point to stuff on Twitter here at this newsletter. I do that not because Twitter is great or a reflection of real life, but because stuff I see there jumpstarts a lot of thinking for me. Often, something I see or say over there turns out to be the germ of a newsletter piece or an article. Last week, someone on Twitter asked, “Would you consider YIMBY a political or social moment? Or something totally different?” (I think he meant “movement”; YIMBY, “Yes in my backyard,” is sort of a movement and a slogan, the purposeful opposite of NIMBY or “Not in my backyard.” There’s a very good chance you know this if you’re reading my newsletter!) Now, YIMBY, or YIMBYism (if it is an “ism”) definitely is both a political and social movement of sorts. But I’ve always found it irksome when people talk about YIMBYs as if they’re just another modern interest group. I reviewed Max Holleran’s book on YIMBY movement, Yes to the City, awhile ago, and while I generally liked it, I offered this critique:
And I think a lot of folks make this error. So my answer to that Twitter question, which I wrote in a quick moment of inspiration, was this:... Subscribe to The Deleted Scenes to read the rest.Become a paying subscriber of The Deleted Scenes to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. A subscription gets you:
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