Eden on the Charles

Rawson, Michael

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“…Forests, on the other hand, were "God's first temples," according to Join Muir. 36 New York conservation policy may have also inspired the name. In 1885, that state protected land in the Adirondacks and the Catskills through the Forest Preserve Act, and further legislated "forest preserve" protection through an amendment to the state constitution in 1894.…”

Section: A Retreat From Chicagomentioning

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Cleaning Streams in Cook County, IL: Forest Preserves, Water Pollution, and Interwar Environmentalism in the Chicago Region

Vena

2021

Journal of Planning History

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In 1916, the Forest Preserve District of Cook County began acquiring land to create a natural retreat for Chicagoans in that booming metropolitan region. Since district officials acquired many properties along county streams, water pollution soon interfered with their mission of creating an urban wilderness for recreational pleasure. To address the problem, in 1931, county leaders appointed the Clean Streams Advisory Committee that collaborated with forest preserve staff members to pressure polluters to clean-up their operations and to persuade enforcement agencies to prosecute ongoing offenders. They also lobbied the Public Works Administration to earmark New Deal funding for sewage treatment in Cook County. Their efforts suggest that early activism against water pollution in American cities emerged not only from efforts to ensure clean drinking water, but also struggles to protect nature. The interwar campaign to clean forest preserve streams anticipated the goals of the federal Clean Water Act (1972) to make all American waterways fishable and swimmable. The movement also preceded the burst of anti-pollution activism that historians have documented in U.S. suburbs after WWII and laid the groundwork for postwar efforts to mitigate water pollution in Cook County.

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Section: A Retreat From Chicagomentioning

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Cleaning Streams in Cook County, IL: Forest Preserves, Water Pollution, and Interwar Environmentalism in the Chicago Region

Vena

2021

Journal of Planning History

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“…54 Boston leaders had long sought to expand into the wealthy suburb of Brookline, but were rebuffed time and again by the prosperous and independent town. 55 In 1873, Brighton faced the question of joining Boston. But many of the typical political motivations for annexation do not fit in the case of Brighton.…”

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Brighton Fair: The Life, Death, and Legacy of an Animal Suburb

Robichaud

2021

Journal of Urban History

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This paper explores the development and legacy of nineteenth-century “animal suburbs,” focusing on Boston and Brighton, Massachusetts. As domesticated animals were pushed from downtowns—and as large-scale animal industries emerged in the 1800s—urban areas grappled with what to do with livestock populations for urban consumers and markets. Animal suburbs like Brighton marked important developmental forms—marking key changes in human-animal relationships, and also in urban development, law, politics, and environmental change. These animal suburbs had distinctive built environments, ecologies, economies, and social landscapes that shaped development in the nineteenth century and in the many decades that followed. This paper explores the life and death of one animal suburb—Brighton—and shows the centrality of these marginal spaces in explaining why parts of American cities look the way they do today, while also providing insight into developments of nineteenth-century law, political development, and capitalism.

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Cities and the Environment

Bauer

Melosi

2012

A Companion to Global Environmental History

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Eden on the Charles

Cited by 25 publications

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Cleaning Streams in Cook County, IL: Forest Preserves, Water Pollution, and Interwar Environmentalism in the Chicago Region

Cleaning Streams in Cook County, IL: Forest Preserves, Water Pollution, and Interwar Environmentalism in the Chicago Region

Brighton Fair: The Life, Death, and Legacy of an Animal Suburb

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