Land-use legislation hearings centered on suburban homebuilding’s environmental damage

Evidence

Governor Francis Sargent of Massachusetts began by calling for a new kind of conservation effort in the nation’s cities and suburbs. Though the conservation movement had always concentrated on mountains, forests, and seashores, Sargent explained, the need had changed: “We must take the tools of the conservationists and apply them to the problems of urban areas.” The presidents of the American Institute of Architects, the American Society for Landscape Architects, and the American Institute of Planners also testified about the need to improve land-use planning in metropolitan regions. To illustrate the need, a representative of the AIA’s committee on urban growth policy made a slide presentation, and almost all the slides depicted environmental impacts of homebuilding. — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 957

Categorization

• XREF: Strongly connects to the polyad’s environmental-justice thrust — conservation reoriented toward urban/suburban harm rather than only wilderness. — connects to: Suburban development relocated environmental threats from distant wilderness to the suburban home itself — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 570; The erosion crisis migrated from farmland to suburban construction by 1965 — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 825
• SEED: Documenting how AIA and planner testimony made homebuilding’s bulldozer impacts the visual proof for land-use law.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source