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New Directions in EcoPlanning Annual Lecture A Great Green Cloud: The Rise and Fall of the City Elms
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History
March 8, 2012
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Lecture by Thomas J. Campanella
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 6:00 PM
Decades before Olmsted park, Yankee villagers planted elm trees on their streets and commons to forge a union of rus and urbe, i.e. the rustic and the urban. The trees brought about “a kind of compromise between town and country,” observed Charles Dickens, as if each had met the other halfway and shaken hands upon it. The result was that lost...
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