When I started this project, i wanted to look at how institutions reflected and shaped a community identity and its issues. The problem I am wondering if I will encounter now that I have done more research on the historic environmental culture of some of the large urban areas was that it might have been in large part driven by activism - groups with specific reactionary agendas most often concerned with getting rid of pollution and protecting private property than preserving natural spaces. I think I am going to have to do more research about the relationship of these groups to one another. I need to put myself into the context and culture of the 1970s to make sure I am addressing the most influential perspectives and initiatives as well as the everyday persons motives and values.
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