How did the greatest land-use makeover in the nation's history take place?
"One of the most profound environmental transformations in the nation's history"
Adam Rome, p. 8.
Waves | Links | Do this | Writing| Verbal | Contents
Las Vegas, Nevada: suburbia blooms in the arid regions.
American environmental history's waves of conservation
“Conservation is the wisest use of resources that have been kept from harm, loss, or decay for the future to promote the greatest good for the largest number of citizens for the longest time.”
Scale impacts and defining environmental history
Settlements influence land-use, land-use changes and landscape ecology
“Neither the solar house nor the all-electric home ever dominated the housing market in the years from 1945 to 1970, yet the fates of the two types of houses shed light on a profound turning point in American Environmental history.”
Adam Rome, Bulldozer in the Countryside, p. 84.
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For Rome's six arguments, and reasons in Siry and Egan, conservation was redefined.
Start Adam Rome's Bulldozer linked pages here:
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Writing
Write about what you recall from a chapter in the assigned readings of Adam Rome's Bulldozer in the Countryside.
Bulldozer in the Countryside by Adam Rome -- Part One
There are, as outlined in the Adam Rome book, steps that federal policy took enabling the 1945 to 2005 boom in suburban housing. The costs directly were a ...
https://myweb.rollins.edu/jsiry/Bulldozer_in_Country.html
The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of ...
Adam Rome. The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl & the Rise of American Environmentalism. “The environmental cost of home building rose ...
https://myweb.rollins.edu/.../Bulldozer%20in%20the%20Countryside.htm
Bulldozer in the Countryside by Adam Rome
Write for five minutes on what Adam Rome means by: “The purchase of a house is never simply a matter of cost." “reason for the limited success of efforts to ...
https://myweb.rollins.edu/jsiry/Gospel_Ecology-Rome-Bull-4.html
Bulldozer in the Countryside by Adam Rome
"AT the federal level, the effort to develop solar technology was handicapped further by a change in the political climate after the election of Dwight Eisenhower .
https://myweb.rollins.edu/jsiry/Bulldozer_in_Country-2.html
Book Notes: Bulldozer in the Countryside, Adam Rome; 2001.
"In 1950....Four of Garnett's images became iconic. The first was a bulldozed landscape....In the second photograph, the tract had dozens of foundations in lines ...
https://myweb.rollins.edu/jsiry/Bulldozer_2001.html
Contents to book chapters & sites for writing, organization, and ...
The Bulldozer in the Countryside, Adam Rome –– "Open space movement" ... Rome in concluding remarks argues that Fortune magazine in June 1950
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Oral Reporting
When selecting passages that are both verbally presented to and interpreted based on selected material.
Always do the following:
- What is the material?
- Where does it come from (citation, with §, section, or ¶, paragraph; and pages) who wrote it and when was it first read.
- How is the passage significant?
- What does it mean and when was it written?
- How does this selection relate to the rest of the
- A) The rest of that chapter
- B) The complete and entire work?
- A Summary statement about the significance of what you did.
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Use these sources for selecting a passage from each chapter to explain its meaning and relation to the book:
Contents
pages
* Introduction. .................................................................... 1-14.
* 1. Levitt’s progress: rise of a suburban-industrial complex. ........ 15-44.
* 2. From the solar house to the all-electric home: ............... 45-86.
* 3. Septic-tank suburbia: ............................................... 87-118.
* 4. Open space: ............................................................ 119-152.
* 5. Where not to build: .................................................. 153-188.
* 6. Water, soil, and wildlife: ............................................ 189-220.
* 7. Toward a land ethic: ................................................. 221-254.
* Conclusion. ............................................................ 255-270.
There are six points that stand out for Adam Rome that he argues with evidence for what he regards as the tract-house promise of the "homebuilding story."
1. Though a growing concern for the loss of wilderness obviously contributed to the rise of environmentalism, the movement also was response to environmental change at the "edges of the nation's cities."
pp. 7-8.
2. Though the environmental movement differed in some key respects from the conservation movement the ideas of the conservationists nevertheless shaped environmental thought well into the 1960s.
pp. 8-9.
3. Though ecologists played a prominent role as advocates for environmental activism, other scientific and technical professionals were also important in drawing attention to environmental problems.
pp. 9-10.
4. Though some federal agencies repeatedly battled with environmentalists, other federal agencies were instrumental in putting
p.10.
5. Though a well-organized anti-environmental movement came out of a struggle over public lands in the West, the effort to control urban and suburban development also led to a powerful anti-environmental movement – the movement to defend "property rights."
p.11.
6. Though environmentalism was partly a form of consumer politics, the consumer mindset has limited the movement in crucial ways.
p. 12.
