Fighting Westway : : Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City / / William W. Buzbee.
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 exp...
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| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Acronyms
- Westway Chronology, 1971–1985
- Introduction
- 1. The Westway Plan
- 2. Highways, Subways, and the Seeds of Dissent
- 3. The Art of Regulatory War
- 4. The Road Warriors and the New Environment
- 5. Searching for Westway’s Achilles’ Heel: Air Pollution?
- 6. Westway’s Fill and America’s Protected Waters
- 7. The Public Fish Story
- 8. Enter the Independent Federal Judiciary and the Power of Law
- 9. Reexamining the 1971–1982 Debacles
- 10. Westway’s Second Chance
- 11. The Trial Crucible
- 12. The Cross-Examination
- 13. Judgment Days
- 14. Assessing Westway’s Outcome
- Epilogue: If Westway Were Proposed Today?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index