The terrain of this conflict is familiar to anyone who has sat through a City Council meeting and seen little discussion of how people move through a city, whether a twenty-story building belongs on a street that has never seen anything taller than three, and whether the view from a resident’s kitchen window is a private amenity or a public good worth protecting. These disputes look local, almost parochial, but they are also proxies for something much larger: a redefinition of who has standing to shape the place they live in.

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