Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America
By Christopher C. Sellers (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs–not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth century, new suburbanites turned to taming the wildness of their surroundings. They cultivated a fondness … Continued