There it destroyed neighborhoods and part of the commercial center.
Some say the highway is a critical link of commerce that was worth destroying neighborhoods to build.
Or did he arrogantly destroy neighborhoods, often the poor and black ones, that got in his way of a grand metropolitan vision?
Big, efficient, appealing and competitive retailers can be designed to benefit rather than destroy neighborhoods.
But some unfortunate decisions in the name of progress in this century destroyed far too many historic buildings and neighborhoods.
Simply letting the drug "run its course" would have destroyed entire neighborhoods beyond repair.
City officials say it will probably not be necessary to destroy entire neighborhoods, speaking instead of city blocks.
But some longtime residents say the workers are nothing more than law-breakers, stealing jobs and destroying neighborhoods.
They succeeded; the early violence killed a number of liberation leaders, sharpened political divisions among blacks and destroyed entire black neighborhoods.