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Prairie Crossing - Creating an American Conservation Community (Hardcover)
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Prairie Crossing - Creating an American Conservation Community (Hardcover)
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Carved out of century-old farmland near Chicago, the Prairie
Crossing development is a novel experiment in urban public policy
that preserves 69 percent of the land as open space. The for-profit
project has set out to do nothing less than use access to nature as
a means to challenge America's failed culture of suburban sprawl.
The first comprehensive look at an American conservation community,
Prairie Crossing goes beyond windmills and nest boxes to examine an
effort to connect adults to the land while creating a healthy and
humane setting for raising a new generation attuned to nature. John
Scott Watson places Prairie Crossing within the wider context of
suburban planning, revealing how two first-time developers
implemented a visionary new land ethic that saved green space by
building on it. The remarkable achievements include a high rate of
resident civic participation, the reestablishment of a thriving
prairie ecosystem, the reintroduction of endangered and threatened
species, and improved water and air quality. Yet, as Watson shows,
considerations like economic uncertainty, lack of racial and class
diversity, and politics have challenged, and continue to challenge,
Prairie Crossing and its residents.
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