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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... acres by 1890. Cleveland expanded its park system from 93 acres in 1890 to 1,500 in 1905. Los Angeles had 6 acres in 1880 and 3,700 in 1905 ; and New York City , a leader in the move- ment , enlarged its parks from 1,500 acres in 1880 ...
... acres of park land and eleven of a projected twenty - seven miles of parkway between 1893 and 1905. New York City's park system was one of the largest in the country , but it was overshadowed as a model by Boston's " Metropolitan Plan ...
... acres in outlying reservations . The Westchester County system , begun in 1922 , comprised over six- teen thousand acres in 1928 ; but Cook County's system was by far the largest , with more than thirty - one thousand acres , chiefly in ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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