id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_czggij7udbhxvfs6kyxj65se34 Stephan J. Schmidt The Evolving Relationship Between Open Space Preservation and Local Planning Practice 2008.0 22 .pdf application/pdf 13459 2127 46 This work argues that open space has been utilized by local planning practice for Consequently, open space has been used to address urban concerns of health Keywords: nature; planning practice; open space preservation; parks movement; The inclusion of open space preservation into the plan making process also provides a powerful rhetorical tool, social processes has made it possible for open space to serve an interventionist role in planning practice. The New Urban Landscape (1986), this has allowed planners to appropriate open space as a means to address social concerns and as a response to public parks as a means both of integrating social classes and new immigrants as well as addressing the overcrowding and lack of sanitary conditions in the industrialized city. Increasingly, "natural" open space was the object of local preservation Schuyler, The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City form in NineteenthCentury America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), 25–6. ./cache/work_czggij7udbhxvfs6kyxj65se34.pdf ./txt/work_czggij7udbhxvfs6kyxj65se34.txt