Nimby and the Civic Good
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12765790 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy A Gibson (George Mason University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 381-401 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | City and Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1535-6841 • E-ISSN: 1540-6040 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1540-6040.2005.00144.x |
| OpenAlex | W2026818918 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 59 |
| References cited | 21 |
Policy scholars dedicated to efficient urban and industrial planning have long tried to understand the “NIMBY syndrome” in order to overcome local resistance to controversial land uses. However, environmental policy scholars have begun to rethink the NIMBY syndrome, arguing that the concept is authority‐centered and reduces land‐use disputes to a moral struggle between rational/civic‐minded planners and irrational/self‐interested opponents. After describing a struggle over locating homeless services in Seattle, this paper extends this larger critique to disputes over human service facilities and argues that the NIMBY syndrome framework fails to capture the political and ethical complexities of locating human services. A conclusion examines how critical sociologists can still critique imbalances of political–economic power in the planning process without deploying the NIMBY syndrome nomenclature
Civil engineering · Environmental ethics · Law and economics · NIMBY · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Engineering · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Law · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Ecology
PHIMBYs and the politics of transit-oriented development
Public Opinion and Affordable Housing
Delineating Active Citizenship
Emociones y subjetividad. Un análisis desde abajo de las luchas por la defensa del territorio
The Ethical Wrongdoing of Morally Objectionable Nimbys
The ‘Urban Village’ versus the ‘City for Profit’
Thinking of anti-incineration protests in strategic action fields
Different coasts for different folks
Planning principles and particular places
Beyond the backyard
Assembling a Co-produced urban lab
The labour of infrastructuring
Fencing a Field
They say these are places for criminals, but this is our home’
Delivering Social Housing
Why Not Nimby
You’re In Oil Country’
Protest Against Waste Contamination in the ‘Land of Fires’
An Array of Deficits
The creative class gets political
Reassessing Nimby
Refugee Camp Siting and the Emergence of Nimby Movements
Framing processes in planning disputes
From personal tragedy to personal challenge
Nimby by another name? A reply to Wolsink
Human service siting conflicts as social movements
Engagements, grammars, and the public
Complexity and interdependence in local mineral extraction planning
Beyond closure
Anti-fossil frames
How will I know about local energy projects? A conjoint-analysis of communication preferences in Germany
Stop burning garbage! Exploring an anti-waste-to-energy social movement and its effects on local politics in Spain
It wasn’t about public housing, it was about the way it was done”
The impacts of affordable housing development on host neighbourhoods
Nimbyism as a barrier to housing and social mix in San Francisco
Democracy in Action
The distribution of perceived advantages and disadvantages of infill development among owners of a commonhold and its’ implications
Urban consolidation, strategic planning and community opposition in Sydney, Australia
How to move from conflict to opportunity in the not-in-my-backyard dilemma
Equity in Coverage of Local Cannabis Control Policies in California, 2020‒2021
Spatial Regulation, Dispersal, and the Aesthetics of the City
Whose rights to the city? Parklets, parking, and university engagement in urban placemaking
Green on both sides
Re-envisioning container urbanism
The Precarious Project and the Wasted Opportunity
More than Spare Change
Rethinking Exclusionary Zoning or
Six Factors Fostering Protest
Overburdened? How refugee dispersal policies can mitigate Nimbyism and public backlash
The Fema Trailer Parks
Interpreting Nimby as movements claiming participatory planning in the context of refugee camps' siting
Multiple Suburban Publics
Scaling up site disputes
Defending and transcending local identity through environmental discourse
The Good, the Bad, and the Hands-on
Business improvement areas and the socio-cultural power of lobbying
Managing territorial stigmatization from the 'middle
Law, pliability and the multicultural city
Re-visiting Nimby
Malign neglect
Culture, ideology and social process
Understanding and Overcoming the Nimby Syndrome
Planners' Alchemy Transforming Nimby to Yimby
Volunteers, Nimbys, and Environmental Justice
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
The Other Side of the Nimby Syndrome
Housing Homeless People
The Fail-Safe Society
From Nimby to Fair Share
Defending the National Interest
Multiple Stable States and Models of Riparian Vegetation Succession on the Animas River, Colorado
Beyond Nimby
Partisan Probing and Democratic Decisionmaking Rethinking the Nimby Syndrome
The socio-spatial stigmatization of homelessness and HIV/Aids
Colouring special needs
| Unique citing works | 59 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,95 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 58 |