don't forget Jane Jacobs winning a fight against NY's planned highway expansion, giving a potent narrative and organizing blueprint for local activists to oppos

don't forget Jane Jacobs winning a fight against NY's planned highway expansion, giving a potent narrative and organizing blueprint for local activists to oppose all sorts of development. Two centuries of conflict between federal and local authorities over racial integration leading to white flight and establishment of suburbs bitterly resistant to outside control. Seventies anti-growth and anti-industrial sentiment driven by anxiety over ecological disasters and a new awareness of physical limits to growth.