Miguel Afonso Caetano<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Cities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cities</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Urbanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Urbanism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/NewYorkCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkCity</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYC</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gentrification</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Coops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coops</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/UrbanPlanning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UrbanPlanning</span></a>: "The lessons learned in the 1960s and ’70s persisted long after state capacity or will to impose “projects” on the urban fabric had withered on the vine. However, the communitarianism of Jacobs’s work is more fundamentally a neoliberal assertion of the primacy of the market. Only developers decide what gets built where.</p><p>This way of thinking has produced the dominant strain in contemporary policy circles known as YIMBYism. YIMBYism, or market urbanism, asserts — in the face of overwhelming evidence — that private development can solve the crises of commodification and price spirals that have defined housing in the urban core of the twenty-first-century West. Unbeknownst to many of that tendency, the way they think about the city has its roots in the history of New York, co-opted by the developer lobby.</p><p>Hatherley aptly summarizes the perverse effects of the New York Ideology, but what he finds when he visits New York itself is a city with a vast stock of social, affordable, and cooperative housing. Despite the protestations of Jacobs, it is precisely “projects” in their various forms that are the holdout sanctuaries of the dense, diverse communities that have since been gentrified out of the Village she fought so hard to save. The book’s first and most complex task, then, is to unpick the web of institutions and organizations that built this housing stock. A cavalcade of local and federal authorities, trade unions, and cooperative movements variously arranged along ethnic, ideological, and factional lines make up the players of the book. Its basic insight is that on a walk through the Bronx, you may well be surprised to come across serried ranks of Brezhnevka (Soviet-style concrete apartment blocks) and be even more so to discover that they were built not by the New York City Housing Authority but by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union for its members." <a href="https://jacobin.com/2024/08/urban-planning-jane-jacobs-yimbys/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2024/08/urban-plan</span><span class="invisible">ning-jane-jacobs-yimbys/</span></a></p>