Nobody wants to be accused of NIMBYism, a term associated with small-mindedness and, in some cases, bigotry. YIMBYs, on the other hand, are proud to be seen welcoming developers to their neck of the woods, or anyone else’s.
For the uninitiated, those acronyms stand for “Not in my back yard” and “Yes in my back yard.”
But development battle lines often are more complicated than they appear. Author and activist Jane Jacobs was dealing with her neighborhood when she blocked the destruction of Washington Square Park, but she also was tackling wider, urban-renewal issues.
Now the old terms make even less sense. Housing researcher Leo Goldberg, author
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