Author: Vermont Development Commission
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Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: United States. National Resources Board
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Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1514

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Author: Sara M. Gregg
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030014220X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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Historians have long viewed the massive reshaping of the American landscape during the New Deal era as unprecedented. This book uncovers the early twentieth-century history rich with precedents for the New Deal in forest, park, and agricultural policy. Sara M. Gregg explores the redevelopment of the Appalachian Mountains from the 1910s through the 1930s, finding in this region a changing paradigm of land use planning that laid the groundwork for the national New Deal. Through an intensive analysis of federal planning in Virginia and Vermont, Gregg contextualizes the expansion of the federal government through land use planning and highlights the deep intellectual roots of federal conservation policy.

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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: United States. National Resources Board
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Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 792

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Author: United States. National Resources Committee
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: Blake A. Harrison
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584655916
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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With its small native population, proximity to major metropolitan areas, and bucolic rural beauty, Vermont was fated to be a tourist mecca, forever associated in the popular imagination with maple syrup, fall colors, and ski bunnies. Tourism, for good and ill, has always been the decisive factor in the conception of rural Vermont. What is surprising, however, is the degree to which we have accepted this notion of rural Vermont as a somehow timeless entity. Blake Harrison's rich and rewarding study instead presents the construction of Vermont's landscape as a complex and ever-changing dynamic informed by progressive, modernist, and reformist thought, competing views of economic expansion, rural and urban prejudice and social exclusion, and (more recently) by land use planning and environmentalism. This broad-based study includes the early history of Vermont tourism, the concomitant abandonment of farms with the rise of the summer home, the creation of an "unspoiled" Vermont (from billboards, at least), the impact of Vermont's ski industry on tradition-bound tourism, and later efforts to legislate growth and protect an increasingly static ideal of a rural Vermont.While grounded within a specific Vermont view, Harrison has much to contribute to broader studies of rural places, tourism, and landscapes in American culture. His analysis of how physical landscapes affect and are affected by our imagined landscape, and the insight afforded by his juxtaposition of leisure and labor, will deeply inform our understanding of rural tourist landscapes for years to come. This is a truly interdisciplinary work that will satisfy and challenge historians and geographers alike.

Author: United States. National Resources Committee
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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