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Originally Posted by NoHyping
If you are going by a higher % of a city with declared - Historic neighborhoods being more Nimby-ish.... then DC would win with over 19% of the city with a designation and Philly and Chicago with 2%. Not sure if age of the city is a key factor unless a small city. DC has a smaller city-proper .... so in part why its % is highest here. Still, even suburbs can have historic blocks etc.
Them 3 city %'s came from the below link.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adammil...h=1bd590dd57af
Just seems when one says one city is more Nimby and number of Historic districts/blocks is key? It has differing results sometimes then one thinks and total overall age of a city.... is not a key factor as more built in the 20th century cities can still have their own city-declared historic areas too for differing reason other then claiming much older or dates back to early founding era of the Nation.
Plenty of factors come to play in the end and one stat may tell a different story then one thinks as just how zoned a city is plays a big roll and cities that Preservationist might be more active in and how soon in history they became a force.
Philly historically, never was a big on multi-residential housing city. Having every level of affordable type of row-housing was as if a motto once and its Apartment % stayed lower then other cities because of it. Not just being more dense in housing that way..... but multi-residential Apt buildings still can boost a more separated old urban lay-out also. That boast density and why they can match solid blocks of rows even if not a major row-home city..... at least where stats are concerned. As family size decreases yet infill becomes increasingly multi-residential. The old stats can change and still each city is unique in its choices whether it is over 100 yrs or less or 200 yrs and more and they can still have historic districts at the same level, though far from a perfect science. As others have stated. Each of these cities have a high Nimby stat. Just to try to claim being MORE HISTORIC is key? Well, stats show by Historic designations then ..... it is DC. |
Correct. It if the barometer defining NIMBY's were historic designated buildings/ neighborhoods then it would be DC no contest. But that is not the end all be all. DC develops at a faster clip mostly due to having various parts of the city that are almost a clean slate for development, and building out its urban core surrounding the downtown, as well as the waterways. In those areas there's almost no opposition to develop. I used to think the abundance of historic registered buildings had to do with being the Capital city, but that's actually not the case. This does not mean however NIMBY's are allowed to dominate the development scene. The city will always get its way.
https://ggwash.org/view/78627/dc-has...combined-why-2
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