Nature and the Environment in Twentieth-Century American LifeBloomsbury Academic, 2006 M05 30 - 237 pages Americans during the twentieth-century became more disconnected from the environment and nature than ever before. More Americans lived in cities rather than on farms; they became ever more reliant on technology to interact with the world around them and with each other. Perhaps paradoxically, the twentieth-century also became the period in which environmental issues played an ever-increasing role in politics and public policy. Why is this so? Perhaps because, despite what many people believe, nature and the environment remains central to everyone's daily life. Pollution, environmental degradation, urban sprawl, loss of wildlife and biodiversity - all of these issues directly impact how everyone - even city dwellers - live their lives. |
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... natural forms , one could make out the fusion of modernist sensibilities with an awareness of natural forms and materials . Four decades later , the organic architec- ture of the young architect reached its maturity in the Laurel ...
... natural environment did not immediately alter the places in which Americans chose to live . In fact , the American land- scape urbanized at an increasingly rapid rate in the early 1900s . With the population concentration in more urban ...
... natural hydrologic conditions over the next 10 to 20 years . In the western United States , a grassroots movement of the late 1990s made states seriously consider dismantling some of the hydro- electric dams that were designed to ...