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Fighting Westway : environmental law, citizen activism, and the regulatory war that transformed New York City / William W. Buzbee.
LIBRA KFX2071 .B89 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buzbee, William W., 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Express highways--Law and legislation--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Express highways.
- Green movement.
- History.
- Express highways--Environmental aspects.
- Express highways--Law and legislation.
- Westway (New York, N.Y.).
- Express highways--Environmental aspects--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Green movement--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1951-.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Politics and government.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 292 pages : 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- The Westway plan
- Highways, subways, and the seeds of dissent
- The art of regulatory war
- The road warriors and the new environment
- Searching for Westway's Achilles heel : air pollution?
- Westway's fill and America's protected waters
- The public fish story
- Enter the independent federal judiciary and the power of law
- Reexamining the 1971-1982 debacles
- Westway's second chance
- The trial crucible
- The cross examination
- Judgment days
- Assessing Westway's outcome
- Epilogue : if Westway were proposed today?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801451904
- 0801451906
- 9780801479441
- 0801479444
- OCLC:
- 858778301
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