GEOG 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Thomas Hayton Mawson, City Beautiful Movement, Political Ecology
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The belief that the city is apart from, and even antithetical to, nature has dominated the way in which the city is perceived and continues to affect how it is built. Issues such as energy conservation, waste disposal, flood control, and water supply are treated as isolated problems, rather than as related phenomena arising from common human activities, made bigger by a disregard for the processes of nature. 1902 ebenezer howard garden cities of tomorrow . It envisioned towns free of slims and enjoying the benefits of both town (opportunity, Illustrated by three magnets diagram. amusement and high wages) and country (beauty, fresh air and low rents): nature as a utility and resource. From the development of parks, nature as spectacle and the antithesis of city. To nature as an obstacle, it is bulldozed for suburbs with exception of planting trees and putting in parks). Reinforcing the view that the city is apart from and antithetical to nature.
