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YIMBY and Placemaking are the perfect pair

Dan Keshet September 5, 2017 Comment

People get involved in shaping cities for different reasons. Some because they ride bikes or take trains, some because of a professional interest, and some because the rent is too damn high. As rents, land use, public space, and transportation are deeply interrelated, people who are interested in one often bleed over into another. But people talk about cities in very different terms. Placemaking urbanism is concerned with creating places people value. YIMBY urbanism is concerned with making sure all people who want access to places are able to. Let’s walk through the difference in these two languages about . . .

 

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Dan Keshet is author of Austin On Your Feet, a blog about the policy and politics of making Austin–and other cities– a thriving city, easy to live in with or without a car.

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