Conservation concerns migrated from forests and farms into metropolitan areas

Evidence

This photograph of soil erosion at a subdivision site in suburban Maryland illustrates the urbanization of the conservation movement - the recognition in the 1950s and 1960s that a range of problems once identified only with forests and farms also plagued the nation’s metropolitan areas. — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 1537

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes chapter 6’s claim that environmental history privileged rural production over metropolitan land use; supports the polyad’s land-use linkage. — connects to: Open-space preservation seeded the local grassroots activism of the postwar environmental movement — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 559; Environmental history has privileged rural production over metropolitan land use — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 14; Suburban development relocated environmental threats from distant wilderness to the suburban home itself — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 570 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Postwar open-space loss converted conservation into a suburban problem and generated new causes #expands (0.90) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 546
• Conservationist ideas carried into environmentalism through an urbanized land ethic #expands (0.85) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 44