The essay that invented YIMBYism

Housing Policy

by Alex Armlovich · about work by Edward Glaeser

Alex Armlovich: How Skyscrapers Can Save The City (2011). Ed Glaeser introduced almost everything YIMBYism is today in this Atlantic feature published years before the first modern YIMBY grassroots groups were even founded. This single paragraph’s math, zoning, and even building code comments are still the core of the YIMBY analysis: