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Nature, polis, ethics: Chicago regional planning
| Author: |
Donnelley, Strachan, ed. |
| Date: |
1998 |
| Periodical: |
A Hastings Center Report Special Supplement |
| Abstract: |
The idea for Nature, Polis, Ethics grew out of a strongly felt need to face squarely and systematically the pressing issue of the Chicago region's future development, including the protection of open lands and historical natural and cultural landscapes, in the face of present regional fragmentation, dislocation, and development pressures. The fragmentation and dislocation, characteristic of other metropolitan regions as well, are a multidimensional ecological, economic, social, political, and cultural reality. There is a looming threat to the ongoing viability of this historically and ecologically important region, provoking a genuine need to think, plan, and act regionally. Chicago needs a new civic vision and discourse that serves both the region's human communities and it natural ecosystems, habitats, and landscapes. |
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