Fighting Westway : environmental law, citizen activism, and the regulatory war that transformed New York City / William W. Buzbee.
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TextPublisher: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type: - text
- still image
- computer
- online resource
- 9780801470301
- Express highways -- Law and legislation -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Express highways -- Environmental aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Green movement -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Westway (New York, N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 1951-
- Transport
- Urban communities
- Transport industries
- Environment law
- 388.411097471 23
- KFX2071 .B89 2016
Previously issued in print: 2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From 1971 to 1985, battles raged over Westway, a multibillion-dollar highway, development, and park project slated for placement in New York City. It would have projected far into the Hudson River, including massive new landfill extending several miles along Manhattan's Lower West Side. The most expensive highway project ever proposed, Westway also provoked one of the highest stakes legal battles of its day. This book reveals how environmentalists, citizens, their lawyers, and a growing opposition coalition, despite enormous resource disparities, were able to defeat this project supported by presidents, senators, governors, and mayors, much of the business community, and most unions.
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