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William Cronon _ Nature's Metropolis: Chicago
Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the building of cities.
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William Cronon _ Nature's Metropolis: Chicago
By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin-a landscape of former prairies now long vanished-as somehow more "natural" than the streets, buildings, and parks of Chicago? All represented drastic human alterations of earlier landscapes.
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