INDEX

• Abundant Housing, 128
• accessory dwelling unit, 13, 65, 96, 107
• activism, 14, 16, 28, 34, 38–40, 132; anti-gentrification, 23; anti-growth, 57; astroturfing, 48, 161
• adaptive reuse, 62
• Agnos, Art, 28
• Airbnb, 14, 95
• Arts and Crafts style, 80
• Aspen, Colorado, 98
• Association of Bay Area Governments, 25
• astronaut families, 143
• AURA, 106, 110–21
• austerity, 137
• Austin, Texas, 100–123
• Austin Neighborhood Council, 102
• Australia, 137–39
• Auyero, Javier, 109
• baby boomers, 56, 58–64, 71–72
• Bacigalupi, Paolo, 164
• backyard, 159
• Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), 20
• Bay Area Renters Federation (BARF), 5–6, 31
• Bellamy, Edward, 78
• Berkeley, 2, 5, 39–42, 54
• Better Boulder, 76
• Boulder, Colorado, 74–99
• Boyd, Robin, 140
• Breed, London, 21, 53
• Brisbane, 150–56
• brownfield, 130
• California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund (CaRLA), 36
• California YIMBY, 36
• Casar, Greg, 102
• Central Business District (CBD), 105, 125, 141, 143, 145, 150–53
• Central Market Payroll Tax Exclusion, 29
• Chiu, David, 50
• class, 7, 14, 70–72, 140
• climate change, 49, 53, 64, 116, 154, 156, 162–64, 172
• Code-NEXT, 102
• cohabitation, 101
• college town, 77
• community character, 3, 34–35, 57, 76, 109
• community consultation, 130
• community land trust, 113, 163
• commuting, 61, 73, 92, 116; rail, 116–17
• coronavirus, 3, 14, 18, 124, 138, 158–59, 160, 162
• cosmopolitanism, 4, 141
• counterculture 58; Austin, 102–3; San Francisco, 19
• crime, 4, 8, 29, 77, 137–38, 144, 157
• Davison, Graeme, 139
• DeLeon, Richard, 28
• Democratic Party, 52, 70, 120
• densification, 7, 10–11, 15–16, 18, 71–72, 76, 95, 102–7, 109, 117, 131–36, 146, 151, 154–55, 163–64
• developers, 6–7, 23–24, 32–33, 38, 43–49, 50–53, 81, 94, 97, 102–4, 111, 115, 121–22, 128, 130–32, 145–46, 151, 158, 161–62
• domestic violence, 148
• duplex, 54, 65, 96, 104, 107, 153
• Easterling, Keller, 30
• Ehrlich, Paul, 88
• elitism, 57, 77, 96
• eminent domain, 84, 87, 163
• essential workers, 160
• ethnography, 171
• Fabians, 80
• fair housing act: California (1964), 26; US (1968), 109
• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 19
• festivals, 104
• financial crisis (2008), 7, 13, 20, 29, 31, 63, 65, 71, 124, 137, 160
• flooding, 3, 87, 101, 140, 163
• Florida, Richard, 103
• food sovereignty, 151
• Foote, Laura, 22, 67
• Footscray, Victoria, 145
• Fourier, Charles, 79
• Garcetti, Eric, 53
• Garden City, 78; association, 79
• gemeinschaft, 100
• generations, 61, 69–73, 102, 161
• gentrification, 3, 6, 11–17, 23, 28–29, 34, 38, 43–46, 49–53, 58, 62–65, 101, 103, 107–9, 112–15, 121–25, 128, 141, 146, 160
• Golden Gate Authority, 24
• Graham, Steven, 31
• Great Society, 19
• greenbelt, 17, 75–93
• Green New Deal, 14
• growth boundary, 80–81
• growth machine, 24, 28, 128
• Haertling, Charles, 87
• Hall, Peter, 130
• Hanlon, Brian, 22
• Hanson, Pauline, 143
• height limits, 76, 89
• Herman, Justin, 25
• Hill, Octavia, 78
• historic preservation, 62, 111
• homelessness, 21, 150
• homeownership, equity, 57
• homes: row, 131; terrace, 139; tract, 125, 139
• housing, 12–14; boarding, 147; build-to-rent, 145; competition, 109; council, 131; filtering, 12; financialization, 132; morphology, 62–63, 135; permitting process, 22; public, 13, 97, 155, 160; supply, 22, 161; supply skepticism philosophy, 12
• Howard, Ebenezer, 78
• hyper-prosperous cities, 21
• Imagine Austin, 102
• Immigration, Australia, 125, 137–38
• In God’s Backyard, 162
• inequality, 16, 27, 60, 68, 78, 109, 123–24, 158
• infrastructure, 21, 23–24, 29–31, 54, 63, 77, 93, 117, 120, 128, 138, 153, 156, 160
• Isenberg, Alison, 25
• Jacobs, Jane, 9, 25, 62, 111
• jobs, 3, 5, 8, 21–22, 31, 37, 57–58, 81
• Johnson, Lyndon, 19, 123
• Keep Austin Weird, 105
• Kim, Jane, 50
• Knecht, Bob, 85
• knowledge sector, 129
• Lafayette, California, 43
• Lamont, William, 91
• lazy land, 149
• League of Women Voters, 82
• Le Corbusier, 79
• Lee, Ed, 29
• libertarianism, 10, 30
• Linklater, Richard, 104
• livability, 124
• Livable Boulder, 96
• London, 129–37
• Lower East Side, 7
• localism, 65, 68
• MacGillis, Alec, 21
• Malthusian, 88
• Marvin, Simon, 31
• mass transit, 63, 93, 160
• media analysis, 167
• Melbourne, 137–50
• memes, 162, 172
• middle-class, 5–7, 12, 16, 19, 23, 45, 58–60, 72, 129, 165, 167
• millennials, 4, 7, 17, 24, 40, 56–58, 62–73, 119, 138
• minimum lot size, 101
• Mission District, 16, 22, 43, 46, 49, 113
• missing middle, 117–18, 120, 132, 138
• mixed-use urban development, 28, 62, 107, 115, 122, 141, 153
• mobility, 8, 18, 30, 40, 58, 67, 71
• neighborhood groups, 61, 169
• newcomers, 67, 100
• New Deal, 80–81, 108, 111
• New Urbanism, 6, 10–11, 114
• New Urbanist Memes for Transport-Oriented Teens (NUMTOT), 39
• Newsom, Gavin, 53
• NIMBY, 1–2, 17–18, 26–28, 33, 35, 39, 41, 54, 56–77, 167
• Oakland, 5, 16, 22–23, 34–36, 38, 42, 45, 63
• Oedipus, 1
• old-timers, 75, 91, 100
• oral history, 170
• Orwell, George, 131
• overcrowding, 4, 98
• Owen, Robert, 79
• parking, 3, 52, 101, 104, 106, 114–15
• parks, 17, 84, 68, 84–86, 133, 159
• peppercorn lease, 148
• PLAN-Boulder, 82
• population growth, 75
• postindustrial, 105
• precarity, 59
• Pritchett, V. S., 129
• Progressive Era, 7, 78
• property rights, 135
• Proposition M (San Francisco), 27
• Proposition 13 (California), 27
• proximity, 158
• Public Housing in My Backyard (PHIMBY), 45
• public land, 83, 149
• public opinion, 128
• psychedelic cowboys, 103
• Queensland YIMBY, 151–52
• racism, 26, 108, 123
• real estate investment trust (REIT), 14
• redlining, 2, 60, 103, 109
• refugees, 138
• regionalism, 92, 164
• rent, 3–8; burdened, 95; control, 34; market rate, 35
• resort communities, 75
• resource hoarding, 60
• restrictive covenants, 60, 108
• retirement, 67
• Reagan, Ronald, 26–27, 57, 68
• Rocky Mountains, 75, 82
• roommates, 98, 125
• Rosewood Courts, 111
• Roy, Ananya, 121
• San Francisco, 19–55
• San Francisco Tenants Union, 23
• Santa Rita Courts, 108
• Sassen, Saskia, 62
• satellite communities, 75, 91, 119
• Schumpeter, Joseph, 9
• Schafran, Alex, 27
• Senate Bill 35, 51
• Senate Bill 50, 52
• Senate Bill 827, 51
• Silicon Valley, 20
• Simmel, Georg, 9
• single-family homes 19; zoning, 14, 157
• single-room occupancy (SRO), 21, 29
• Skinner, Nancy, 50
• smart cities, 30
• smart growth, 33, 76, 78, 102
• snowball sample, 168
• social media, 37, 39, 126, 167, 169, 170
• social movements, 64, 172; emotionally constructed, 59, 66; participation, 65
• South of Market (SoMa), 20
• sprawl, 10, 17–18, 24, 26, 44, 57, 59, 75, 81–85, 87, 89
• Stand Your Ground Law, 61
• suburbs: incorporation, 78; lifestyle, 61; retrofitting, 69
• suburbanization, 24, 41, 59–60, 67–68, 100, 122, 125–26, 138, 140, 151
• successful cities; 58
• Sue the Suburbs, 43, 69
• Sunbelt, 164
• super-commuters, 22, 160
• Sweden, 127
• Tale of Two Cities, 21
• taxes, 2, 29, 45, 60, 86, 114, 117; mortgage interest deduction credit, 150; negative gearing, 142; revolt, 27
• Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, 109
• Tedesco, Ted, 85
• telecommuting, 159
• Tenderloin, 21, 26, 29
• Thatcher, Margaret, 57, 132, 135, 155
• third places, 150
• Tory, 132
• trails, 17, 75, 85, 89, 90
• Transamerica Pyramid, 25
• transit-oriented development, 53–54
• Trauss, Sonja, 4, 5, 22, 31, 33–38, 42–46, 49, 50, 52
• Trump, Donald, 21, 36–37, 39, 68, 116, 143, 157
• Tugwell, Rexford, 81
• Turner, Fred, 20
• Unwin, Raymond, 80
• upzoning, 28
• urban planning, 10, 12, 15, 36, 40, 42; meetings, 65
• urban sociology, 7, 100
• utopianism, 80
• Vancouver, 128
• Varma, Deepa, 23
• verticality, 4, 82
• virtue signaling, 23
• Weiner, Scott, 50–54
• welfare state, 19, 21, 79
• White Australia Policy, 141
• white flight, 2, 126
• Whitlam, Gough, 139
• wildfires, 151, 163
• Wirth, Louis, 4
• Wright, Ruth, 85
• Yes in My Back Yard (YIMBY), 3–7, 11–18; build more of everything philosophy, 23, 42; groups, 36, 48–49, 127
• Zero Population Growth, 88
• zoning, 3, 4–5, 10–16, 28, 33, 36, 39, 44, 54; inclusionary, 94; meetings, 41, 58–60, 64–66
• Zukin, Sharon, 103