“…Much has been written about these tensions and trends (Marx, 1964;Glacken, 1967;Williams, 1973;McHarg, 1992;Luccarelli, 1995;Creese, 1996;Parsons and Schuyler, 2002) that emerge as socio-political reform agendas, based in a belief in the importance of access to nature and open space. And they continue into the twentieth century with the further building of garden cities (even today's suburbs-perhaps the most predominant manifestation of a desire to be surrounded by nature while still being in the city), the struggles to build more urban parks, the federal (in the U.S.) investments in National Recreation Areas, and many other examples beyond the scope of this article (Whyte, 1970;Jackson, 1994;Rome, 2001;Seller, 2012).…”