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9%OFFWilliam W. Buzbee - Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City - 9780801479441 - V9780801479441
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Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City

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Description for Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.

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. In Fighting Westway, William W. Buzbee 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 ... Read more

Drawing on archival records and interviews, Buzbee goes beyond the veneer of government actions and court rulings to illuminate the stakes, political pressures, and strategic moves and countermoves that shaped the Westway war, a fight involving all levels and branches of government, scientific conflict, strategic citizen action, and hearings, trials, and appeals in federal court. This Westway history illuminates how high-stakes regulatory battles are fought, the strategies and power of America’s environmental laws, ways urban priorities are contested, the clout of savvy citizen activists and effective lawyers, and how separation of powers and federalism frameworks structure legal and political conflict. Whether readers seek an exciting tale of environmental, political, and legal conflict, to learn what really happened during these battles that transformed New York City, or to understand how modern legal frameworks shape high stakes regulatory wars, Fighting Westway will provide a good read.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801479441
SKU
V9780801479441
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About William W. Buzbee
William W. Buzbee is Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law and will be joining the law faculty at Georgetown University Law Center in the fall of 2014. He is coauthor of Environmental Protection: Law and Policy and editor of Preemption Choice: The Theory, Law, and Reality of Federalism's Core Question. He has published in many leading law ... Read more

Reviews for Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City
Fighting Westway is a fluid historical narrative that offers rich political discernments about a legendary case study of environmental politics. Buzbee's chronological account and legal analysis of the rise and fall of the proposed redevelopment of an interstate along the Lower West Side of Manhattan island is accomplished with an inspirational, firsthand, objective, third-party storyline.... The author, an experienced environmental ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War That Transformed New York City


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