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Conor Dougherty
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Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
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published
2020
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6 editions
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“zoning says a lot about who we are and who we are becoming. At least at the local level, zoning is democracy, and democracy is zoning.”
― Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
― Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
“NIMBYism is so entrenched and rooted in nostalgia that you could propose new apartments on an abandoned lot and still have someone protest the building on the grounds that the abandoned lot “was the first place I got fingerbanged.”
― Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
― Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
“Richard Nixon, then the vice president, highlighted a six-room model ranch house to the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev. “Soviet propaganda had been telling Russians in advance that the ranch house they would see at the U.S. exhibition was no more typical of workersâ€� homes in the U.S. than the Taj Mahal was typical in India or Buckingham Palace in Britain,â€� according to a Time magazine story.”
― Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
― Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
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