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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... urban planning and eventually helped create new understandings of environmental health . The pace of growth stemming ... urban spaces ( Mumford , 321–25 ) . This was one of the primary tasks of planners and designers ( such as Mumford ) ...
... urban areas meant that they suffered a disproportionate contact with the environmental and health hazards of city life . In the early 1900s , the racial composition of the nation's cities underwent a decisive change - particularly ...
... urban reform , 47 ; Kellogg , Paul U. , studies urban problems in Pittsburgh , 45 ; Moses , Robert , designs urban and suburban land- scape around the automobile , 107– 8 ; Russell Sage Foundation , calls for urban reform , 45 ...