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Originally Posted by UrbanImpact
There is a bigger NIMBY problem in London & NYC compared to Sao Paulo as the NIMBYs in developed countries have a bigger say in what happens in jurisdictions. It gets downright nasty at city meetings and politicians want to keep their jobs and not piss off voters. That's the crux of it.
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It depends though. Even with this incredibly liberal new zoning legislation, abolishing the disgusting mandatory setbacks and parking from the 1960's zoning law onwards that ruined SP (highrises surrounded by walls with massive and useless common areas), Jardins, the district just southwest Central SP, is as suburban as Atlanta and remained intact. Massive mansions that look like Central Park from above, remain completely out of limits even for the lightest transformation.
São Paulo can be very NIMBY (the average paulistano, the press, call short highrises "skyscrapers" in a pejorative way), but developers are a very powerful group as well and fortunately the latter is winning with the help of the new generation of urbanists and architects that embraced urban living. NIMBYs are also actively criticizing the new construction boom by supposedly changed the "character of the neighbourhoods" (where most of constructions date the 1970's...) or saying the only add tiny apartments, but this boom that keeps prices in check. Young people starting career need a place to live and fortunately they can do it in those new buildings appearing on every corner on Central SP.
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