Garden and Forest
A Forgotten Magazine and the Urban Roots of American Environmentalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12451197 |
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| Authors | Shen Hou (Department of Conservation, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 813-842 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-5453 • E-ISSN: 1930-8892 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1093/envhis/ems082 |
| OpenAlex | W2053489149 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This article examines an integrative vision of the relationship between nature and the city appearing in a late nineteenth-century American weekly magazine entitled Garden and Forest (1888–97). Edited by Charles S. Sargent—a Harvard botanist—and William A. Stiles—a New York journalist—this magazine served as a collective voice for various environmental concerns and issues during the early period of the conservation movement. It promoted a “city natural” ideal that tried to civilize the nation by creating a more harmonious fit of cities within their natural habitat. While promoting the application of professional knowledge and training to manage nature and conserve natural resources, it felt unashamed to argue for the indispensability of nature's beauty in an urban age. An analysis of this early environmental magazine reveals a more complicated and distinctly urban origin of environmentalism than we have fully realized
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Beauty · Environmental ethics · Environmental movement · Environmentalism · Ideal (ethics · Natural (archaeology · Natural resource · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · American History and Culture · Landscape and Cultural Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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