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Thus the NP developers, motivated by a federal land-grant policy that encouraged reckless building, isolated the Twin Cities.

the economic value of open spaces not developed

“Grand Bargain” of sorts.94 “The quid pro quo for a cleaner environment was that development would become slower and more expensive due both to permitting and to the litigation that often ensued. In many respects, this has turned out to be a good deal. Apart from greenhouse gases, which effectively have been unregulated, every major air pollutant

People on the site would have to be removed—evicted, dispossessed, thrown out, relocated—and removal would rend the fabric of their lives. The lives of those near the site might not be rent but they would certainly be altered, for the physical environment which did so much to shape their daily existence would be altered, not only in dramatic ways

The battle had proven that the powers he had obtained as head of a new part-private, part-public entity, a “body corporate and politic,” were vast enough so that in his spheres of activity he, not the formal democratic institutions of New York, would henceforth shape New York’s destiny.

Men would have to make sacrifices for the sake of the system: acknowledging that some present employees would not score high enough on his tests for the jobs they held, he had a simple solution—such employees would have to accept demotions and pay cuts. Unnecessary employees, he said, would have to be “eliminated.”

Acting with uncommon dispatch, the L.A. City Council passed an ordinance providing a million dollars in relief funds, promising complete restoration and compensation for everyone materially affected by the flood. The council also authorized the formation of a Joint Restoration Committee, consisting of both a delegation of city representatives and a