The IPCC Special Report on 1.5C sets the timeline for rapid action to address the climate crisis, and the UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2019 provided policy recommendations including removing barriers to building multifamily housing in urban areas.
Alex Baca published The Green New Deal’s Huge Flaw in February 2019, noting that the initial resolution “ignores the most crucial environmental, economic, and racial-justice issue of all: where we live.” This inspired the formation of our group, and Alex spoke to us last April.
The Equitable & Just National Climate Platform is a statement of principles for incorporating environmental justice into national climate policy.
Cities for People and Soft City provide a design framework for healthy, enjoyable, human-centered dense urban environments.
The YIMBY Canon provides reading on the racist history of American housing policy, the origins of the urban housing shortage and its relationship to affordability, and events precipitating the formation of the YIMBY movement. All of these topics were woven together seamlessly in Conor Dougherty's Golden Gates.
The Sightline Institute provides a wealth of resources on the linkages between housing and climate policy, especially the importance of missing middle housing.
Shareable published a series of articles in the fall of 2019 on the history of exclusionary zoning and discussing solutions for the housing crisis, as well as the book Sharing Cities.
Housing Underproduction in California is an Up for Growth report documenting the housing supply deficit of 3.4 million homes in California and illustrating two scenarios for filling this deficit: a sprawl-oriented “more of the same” scenario and an infill-oriented “smart growth” scenario. The smart growth scenario is shown to achieve very large macroeconomic and environmental benefits.
Donald Shoup wrote Parking Reform will Save the City this September as a follow-on to his 2005 book The High Cost of Free Parking, and Greg Shill took a deeper dive into the way that the law privileges driving over consensus social values in Should the Law Subsidize Driving?
The Greenlining Mobility Equity Framework and equitable autonomous vehicle framework provide a template for equitable transportation policy amidst historical underfunding of transit and innovations in mobility technology.
Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics provides a template for 21st century economics that foregrounds environmental sustainability. Also check out Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing to understand how accidents of history and political interests caused land and other fixed resources to be neglected from mainstream economics for a century.
Alex Baca published The Green New Deal’s Huge Flaw in February 2019, noting that the initial resolution “ignores the most crucial environmental, economic, and racial-justice issue of all: where we live.” This inspired the formation of our group, and Alex spoke to us last April.
The Equitable & Just National Climate Platform is a statement of principles for incorporating environmental justice into national climate policy.
Cities for People and Soft City provide a design framework for healthy, enjoyable, human-centered dense urban environments.
The YIMBY Canon provides reading on the racist history of American housing policy, the origins of the urban housing shortage and its relationship to affordability, and events precipitating the formation of the YIMBY movement. All of these topics were woven together seamlessly in Conor Dougherty's Golden Gates.
The Sightline Institute provides a wealth of resources on the linkages between housing and climate policy, especially the importance of missing middle housing.
Shareable published a series of articles in the fall of 2019 on the history of exclusionary zoning and discussing solutions for the housing crisis, as well as the book Sharing Cities.
Housing Underproduction in California is an Up for Growth report documenting the housing supply deficit of 3.4 million homes in California and illustrating two scenarios for filling this deficit: a sprawl-oriented “more of the same” scenario and an infill-oriented “smart growth” scenario. The smart growth scenario is shown to achieve very large macroeconomic and environmental benefits.
Donald Shoup wrote Parking Reform will Save the City this September as a follow-on to his 2005 book The High Cost of Free Parking, and Greg Shill took a deeper dive into the way that the law privileges driving over consensus social values in Should the Law Subsidize Driving?
The Greenlining Mobility Equity Framework and equitable autonomous vehicle framework provide a template for equitable transportation policy amidst historical underfunding of transit and innovations in mobility technology.
Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics provides a template for 21st century economics that foregrounds environmental sustainability. Also check out Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing to understand how accidents of history and political interests caused land and other fixed resources to be neglected from mainstream economics for a century.
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Urban Environmentalists is part of the YIMBY Action network
Urban Environmentalists is part of the YIMBY Action network