> telling people to "get over" being a NIMBY has never worked before
Sure it has: you just outvote the NIMBYs. One of the big problems is that cities no longer annex their suburbs. In the Bay Area, the City of San Francisco really should be everything from Golden Gate Park to San Jose. Once you set up coherent governance, you can enact coherent policy.
In general, if you feel like society just isn't working like it used to work and you can't figure out why, try to see what's actually done differently now and think about why it might have changed.
Sure it has: you just outvote the NIMBYs. One of the big problems is that cities no longer annex their suburbs. In the Bay Area, the City of San Francisco really should be everything from Golden Gate Park to San Jose. Once you set up coherent governance, you can enact coherent policy.
In general, if you feel like society just isn't working like it used to work and you can't figure out why, try to see what's actually done differently now and think about why it might have changed.