“Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the building of cities.” AgencyEnvironmental HistoryHistoriographyUrban History Book:Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Source: Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
“By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin—a landscape of former prairies now long vanished—as somehow more “natural” than the streets, buildings, and parks of Chicago? All represented drastic human alterations of earlier landscapes.” Environmental HistoryUrban HistoryRural History Book:Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Source: Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
“Toward the end of the Second World War, a new consciousness arose amongst the public and policy makers of the Western World. After ten years of crippling economic depression and another five at war, the public demanded something new from their disintegrating urban environments.” CitiesHistoryUrbanModernismPublic PolicyModern ArchitecturePost WarUrbanismUrban HistoryNew Urbanism Author:Lucas Mascotto-Carbone