> As air travel greatly expanded in the 1960s and 70s, there were “no more virulent domestic conflicts… in the advanced industrial world than those over airport

> As air travel greatly expanded in the 1960s and 70s, there were “no more virulent domestic conflicts… in the advanced industrial world than those over airport construction.” I can't keep reading this article seriously. Civil rights movements are the obvious domestic conflict at the time, but even in transportation this is wrong. There were huge conflicts in "highway revolts" [1] or conflicts over suburbanization, urban renewal, and how much of the city to turn over to cars. The kind of thing Robert Moses started but governments around the developed world were doing in these decades. Governments siezed entire neighborhoods deemed to be "slums" to build a highway so suburban commuters could have an easier commute downtown. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_revolt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_revolt