"A new edition of the book that received the Historic
Preservation Book Prize and the American Society for Landscape
Architects' Honor Award"
Since publication of the first edition of "Saving America's
Countryside" in 1989, the fight to save America's rural resources
has met with much success. Approaches considered experimental just
a decade ago--greenways and heritage areas, for example--are now
widespread. Yet at the same time, such disquieting developments as
continuing suburban sprawl, the weakening of federal laws, and the
so-called property rights movement all suggest that work remains to
be done.
"Saving America's Countryside" was the first and is still the
only comprehensive, step-by-step guide to protecting the natural,
historic, scenic, and agricultural resources of a rural community.
The authors show how to organize a conservation effort, inventory
available resources, pass effective new laws, set up land trusts,
take advantage of federal programs, and change public
attitudes.
The thoroughly revised and updated second edition reports on
changes in conservation over the past eight years and adds a
chapter on making economic development compatible with rural
conservation. It includes new case studies, more than fifty new
illustrations, and a section on heritage tourism. As in the
previous edition, the detailed case studies document a variety of
successful--and often surprisingly innovative--conservation efforts
by residents of rural communities throughout the United States.
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