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By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery
County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia,
this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history
to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis. Andrew C. Baker
examines the local boosters, gentlemen farmers, historical
preservationists, and nature-seeking suburbanites who abandoned the
city to live in the metropolitan countryside during the twentieth
century. These property owners formed the vanguard of the
antigrowth movement that has defined metropolitan fringe politics
across the nation. In the rural South, subdivisions, reservoirs,
homesteads, and historical villages each obscured the troubling
legacies of racism and rural poverty and celebrated a refashioned
landscape. That landscape's historical and environmental
"authenticity" served as a foil to the alienation and ugliness of
suburbia. Using a source base that includes the records of
preservation organizations and local, state, and federal government
agencies, as well as oral histories, Baker explores the distinct
roots of the environmental politics and the shifting relationship
between city and country within these metropolitan fringe regions.
By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery
County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia,
this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history
to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis. Andrew C. Baker
examines the local boosters, gentlemen farmers, historical
preservationists, and nature-seeking suburbanites who abandoned the
city to live in the metropolitan countryside during the twentieth
century. These property owners formed the vanguard of the
antigrowth movement that has defined metropolitan fringe politics
across the nation. In the rural South, subdivisions, reservoirs,
homesteads, and historical villages each obscured the troubling
legacies of racism and rural poverty and celebrated a refashioned
landscape. That landscape's historical and environmental
"authenticity" served as a foil to the alienation and ugliness of
suburbia. Using a source base that includes the records of
preservation organizations and local, state, and federal government
agencies, as well as oral histories, Baker explores the distinct
roots of the environmental politics and the shifting relationship
between city and country within these metropolitan fringe regions.
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