"Recognizing Peninsula residents' growing fear that raised high-speed train tracks could divide their communities, residents of a San Carlos neighborhood have started sharing their bad experiences from living near an elevated Caltrain bridge.[...] Since San Carlos city officials, who are in favor of the project, have chosen not to join Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Atherton in lobbying against the rail bridges, the East San Carlos neighborhood has decided to team up with neighborhood groups from those cities in an informal consortium that has the ear of two state legislators" By Mike Rosenberg. Read more

Pepe Lasmarías thinks so. Read it here

"That’s one of the biggest problems with NIMBY discussions. Once it’s not in your backyard, it becomes a “don’t build anything on anyone’s backyard”. I am disappointed (yes, I know I wouldn’t be directly affected because I don’t live there) but truth be told, I am more worried about other issues that are, in my view, much more relevant (such as the series of gay-bashings in the West End)." By Hummingbird604. Read more

1) Lack of Planning,
2) From Cities to Metropolitan Areas
3) The Problem of Fragmentation
4) Unmanaged Growth
5) Fragmented Institutions
6) Lack of Planning Theory
7) The Need for New Concepts

By Michael Gallis. Read more

"RESIDENTS have bombarded City of York Council with objections to an application from a York guest house owner for an alcohol and music licence. [...] Members of the council’s licensing committee, which meets today to decide whether to grant the licence, have received 21 letters of objection from residents in nearby streets. These residents fear that granting the licence would lead to a rise in antisocial behaviour, traffic, vandalism, noise, litter and parking problems." By Nicola Fifield. Read more

"The world’s largest gas producer and the world’s largest natural-gas market have finally come together. Gazprom and Shell announced a deal that will send gas from Russia’s far east to LNG terminals on the U.S. West Coast." By Keith Johnson. Read more

Not all activists are 'NIMBY'. Nik Nak (a real YIMBY activist). Read more 

"One of the reasons Google has the best reputation of any company on the globe is that the majority of customers don’t get a bill in the mail for using Google’s terrific products every day. But a break in Google’s halo has come recently - when Google came out of the ether and landed in a fancy neighborhood’s backyard." By Jonathan Struthers. Read more

"The Conservatives proposal to abolish housing targets has been branded a 'charter for nimbys'.
Plans to scrap regional planning were revealed in the Conservative's housing green paper announced today.
The Federation of Master Builders said such a move would bring housebuilding 'to its knees'." By Michael Willoughby . Read more