Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban AmericaJohns Hopkins University Press, 01.02.1990 - 264 Seiten Peter J. Schmitt describes the many ways in which America's urban middle class became involved with nature from the turn of the century to shortly after World War I, and he assess the influence of the "Arcadian myth" on American culture. With sympathy and gentle irony, he surveys the manifestations of the American love affair with the country: summer camps, the beginnings of wildlie protection and the conservation crusade, landscaped cemeteris, "Christian ornithology," and wilderness novels. The Arcadian drive reflected urban values, as the city-dweller sought virtue in nature. Landscape gardening, country clubs, national parks, and scenic turnoffs imposed the industrial ethic of order, neatness, and regularity on natural landscaps. Nature study and anthropomorphic animal stories taught moral values to children. |
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... planning was " the New Conservation , " aimed at utilizing natural resources exclu- sively to benefit city dwellers . Mumford's contributors were members of the Regional Planning Association of America , men who had failed to remold the ...
... planning , 177 ; and Wilder- ness Society , 175 MacMillan , Hugh , 141 , 142 , 145 McMurray , Lida , 85 Manning , Warren , and urban plan- ning , 71 Market Hunting , 9 , 10 ; and feather trade , 40-41 Marshall , Robert , 4 , 173 , 176 ...
... planning , 183 ; sub- urbs of , 182 ; wildness in , 182 New York state , 14 , 23 , 29 , 72 , 88 ; and game ... planning , 183 , 184 ; and Appalachian Trail , 184 ; and Re- gional Planning Association of America , 183 ; urgency of , 183 ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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