Jacobs developed her ideas about cities in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, studying how people make city neighborhoods bustling and safe, and fighting large highway projects that uproot the poor.
After a trip to Europe, Jill became engrossed in fighting a local highway construction scandal.
Syrian government warplanes and artillery increased attacks on rebels in the suburbs east and south of Damascus, fighting closed the highway to the Dara'a in the south, and clashes continued in Homs Province, in central Syria, and in the city of Deir al-Zour in the east, according to state news media and antigovernment activists.
Through a couple of decades fighting against this highway, many of the people in the room had sat in other hearings and watched other parades of opponents say "No" to the highway.
He tried again in 1971 in the Democratic primary campaign, emphasizing not race relations but building better highways, fighting drug abuse, creating jobs and cutting government waste.
"Why aren't you going into the cities?" Dowdy told Mattis that he had been attacking: "I've been fighting up this motherfucking highway".
They needed to go far so once we were on the highway, they started fighting and I started to freak out.
Gennady Kernes, the mayor of Kharkiv, was shot in the back, reportedly while jogging on a local highway, and is "fighting for his life," officials said in a statement.
There were also numerous but unverifiable reports of fighting along a strategic north-south highway, as well as in the embattled city of Aleppo, in its southern suburbs and in Homs.
"They're still fighting the last urban war, which was highway development — but that's not the nature of the future of the city," Professor Savitch said.
