Deerfield and NIMBYism Hi Mike While the term NIMBY and perhaps the absolute definition may be fairly recent the concept really isn t that new depending on your point of view of course In fact the Deerfield case was one of the earliest examples of NIMBYism and the concept itself is discussed in the Rosen book quite a bit That s why I included Deerfield in the see also I wasn t sure how best to create a section in the NIMBY article about this event but it is historically important to the concept so figured this was the next best thing