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Author Watson, John Scott, author.

Title Prairie Crossing : creating an American conservation community / John Scott Watson
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; One. Saving the Land by Developing It; Two. Genesis of an Idea; Three. Sea of Suburbia; Four. Changing the Culture; Five. A Geography of Somewhere; Six. Civic Participation; Seven. Nature's Suburb; Appendix: Prairie Crossing Timeline; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Color Illustrations
Summary The vision and the reality of returning nature to the suburbs
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Illinois -- Grayslake
Sustainable development -- Illinois -- Grayslake
ARCHITECTURE -- Sustainability & Green Design.
Sustainable development
Urban ecology (Sociology)
SUBJECT Prairie Crossing (Grayslake, Ill.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97060911
Subject Illinois -- Grayslake
Illinois -- Grayslake -- Prairie Crossing
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780252097973
0252097971