Tenleytown Knockout: Self-defense For Communities

8 July 2003 - 10:00am

Residents of Tenleytown have perfected a self-defense technique to fight development and re-development proposals.

"Over the past 30 years, these and other organizations have collectively invented a nearly insurmountable self-defense technique: the Tenleytown Knockout. Whether it's a residential development or a retail outlet, a public project or private enterprise, if neighborhood animus reaches critical mass, the Knockout can't be far behind."

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Source: Washington City Paper, July 4, 2003
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All of that only scratches the surface of what's wrong with this study. The idea that complex urban development patterns and human behavior can be meaningfully studied according to one primary criteria — density — is wrong from the start.