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A contemporary map of New England, scaled to the township level, brings to light a dense pattern of protected areas ringing almost every town and city in the region. Big and small, rural and urban, these green spaces represent more than a century of preservation efforts on the part of philanthropic foundations, planning professionals, state agencies, and most importantly, community-based conservation organizations. Taken together, they highlight one of the most significant advances in land stewardship in US history. Democratic Spaces explains how these protected places came into being and what they represent for New Englanders and the nation at large. While early New Englanders worked to save local fish, timber, and game resources from outside exploitation, no land-stewardship organizations existed before the founding of the Trustees of Public Reservations in Boston in 1891. Across a century of dramatic change, New England preservationists through this and other, smaller community-based land trusts preserved open spaces for an ever-widening circle of citizens.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Art of Public Improvement
Iconography in Rural New England
Chapter 2: Awakening the Preservation Spirit
The Trustees of Public Reservations
Chapter 3: Stewardship Strategies
The Trustees in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 4: The Land Trust Explosion
Grassroots Preservation in the 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 5: Reimagining Urban Spaces
Preservation in the City, 1980-2000
Chapter 6: Middle-Way Preservation in the Era of Ecosystem Management, 1990-2010
Conclusion
Notes
Index
