A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Reconsidering Conservation
California's culture and landscape reflect the power and successes of conservation. The success of conservationists in shaping rural California for both material and spiritual purposes fits quite comfortably within longstanding scholarly treatments of conservation. Although some leading conservationists in California and elsewhere saw the city and nature as sharply removed, a number of important elite conservationists supported both rural and urban conservation. The impulse behind conservation–the search for a material balance and psychic renewal with a nature believed to be imperiled and at risk of exhaustion‐was expressed in private as well as public life. This chapter argues that historians of conservation should continue to broaden their work by exploring the connections between conservation and urban reform, park politics, and domestic architecture. Conceived of in this breadth, different varieties of conservation attracted a wide basis of support and political involvement, in part because they were connected to wider cultural changes.
Reconsidering Conservation
California's culture and landscape reflect the power and successes of conservation. The success of conservationists in shaping rural California for both material and spiritual purposes fits quite comfortably within longstanding scholarly treatments of conservation. Although some leading conservationists in California and elsewhere saw the city and nature as sharply removed, a number of important elite conservationists supported both rural and urban conservation. The impulse behind conservation–the search for a material balance and psychic renewal with a nature believed to be imperiled and at risk of exhaustion‐was expressed in private as well as public life. This chapter argues that historians of conservation should continue to broaden their work by exploring the connections between conservation and urban reform, park politics, and domestic architecture. Conceived of in this breadth, different varieties of conservation attracted a wide basis of support and political involvement, in part because they were connected to wider cultural changes.
Reconsidering Conservation
Deverell, William (editor) / Igler, David (editor) / Johnson, Benjamin Heber (author)
A Companion to California History ; 246-261
2013-12-13
16 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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