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  BOSTON, MA: Eminent Domain in the Hands of the Community, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative

  Community control of eminent domain is used to avoid gentrification and provide opportunity and stability in a low-income community.
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  DELAWARE WATER GAP: The Evolving Justifications for Eminent Domain: Dam Inundation Stopped, Recreational Area Created, Properties Still Taken

  Property is taken but the eminent domain plan is redefined.
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  DETROIT, MI: Cars, roads, suburbanization, and eminent domain in Jefferson Village

  Eminent domain attempts to create a suburb-like development in a shrinking city.
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  NORRIS, TN: “Shall Be Taken in the Name of the United States of America” The Tennessee Valley Authority, the Norris Dam, Model Towns, and Displacement

  Eminent domain is used in the 1930s to move 15,000 people, making way for a modernizing hydro-electric dam.
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  BENSENVILLE, IL: In the Way of Progress; the O’Hare Airport Expansion

  Chicago turns a piece of a neighboring suburb into runways for O’Hare Airport.
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  LAKE BUCHANAN, TX: Subject to Change as Conditions Develop Lake Buchanan Dam

  The eminent domain plan meets up with Mother Nature.
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  LOS ANGELES, CA: Maurice Sendak Elementary School

  Who pays the price to make room for new schools in a developed city neighborhood?
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  CELILO FALLS, OR: The Mighty Columbia, Sacred Lands, and Eminent Domain

  The might Columbia River is harnessed but sacred Native American lands are lost.