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  2. Municipal disinvestment - Wikipedia

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    During the postwar era, municipalities sought to grow enriched and modernized communities from the slums that they demolished. As the Civil Rights Movement was in full display through highway revolts and responses to racial violence, there was a growing mindset among urban planners that a communal-focused, people-first approach should be taken, along the same lines as community development ...

  3. Tragedy of the commons - Wikipedia

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    The status of common land in England as mentioned in Lloyd's pamphlet has been widely misunderstood. Millions of acres were "common land", but this did not mean public land open to everybody, a popular fallacy. There was no such thing as ownerless land. Every parcel of "common" land had a legal owner, who was a private person or corporation.

  4. Jack Common - Wikipedia

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    He was born in Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, [5] close to the rail-sheds where his father worked as an engine-driver. After attending Chillingham Road School, where he developed a lifelong love of Shelley, and Skerry's College, Newcastle, where he gained some secretarial skills, Common found it difficult to extend his education or get a rewarding job.

  5. Highways in England and Wales - Wikipedia

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    Highways are vital for tenants and landowners because most property needs a means of access from the public highway. A property with no such means of access is called "landlocked", which has serious consequences for its value and use. The main statute governing highways is the Highways Act 1980. This gives responsibility for most highways to ...

  6. Road - Wikipedia

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    The definition of a road depends on the definition of a highway; there is no formal definition for a highway in the relevant Act. A 1984 ruling said "the land over which a public right of way exists is known as a highway; and although most highways have been made up into roads, and most easements of way exist over footpaths, the presence or ...

  7. Good Roads Movement - Wikipedia

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    Good Roads magazine was an early advocate for road improvements.. The Good Roads Movement was officially founded in May 1880, when bicycle enthusiasts, riding clubs and manufacturers met in Newport, Rhode Island, to form the League of American Wheelmen to support the burgeoning use of bicycles and to protect their interests from legislative discrimination.

  8. Commonwealth (Hardt and Negri book) - Wikipedia

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    Commonwealth is a book by autonomous Marxist theorists Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. It completes a trilogy which includes Empire and Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. The influence of the book has paralleled the rise of the "common" as a concept at the center of the political and cultural debate. [1]

  9. Highway Act 1835 - Wikipedia

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    The Highway Act 1835 placed highways under the direction of parish surveyors, and allowed them to pay for the costs involved by rates levied on the occupiers of land. The surveyor's duty is to keep the highways in repair, and if a highway is out of repair, the surveyor may be summoned before the courts and ordered to complete the repairs within a limited time.