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Nature Much Improved: The Curation Of A Nineteenth-Century Neighborhood And Greenspace, Shannan C. Mason Sep 2020

Nature Much Improved: The Curation Of A Nineteenth-Century Neighborhood And Greenspace, Shannan C. Mason

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Shannan Mason uses the Lucas Place neighborhood as a case study to understand the early movement of wealthier St. Louisans to the outskirts of the city and their role in rejecting crowded urban sensibilities for expanded greenspace. This article won the Morrow Prize for the Best Student Paper on a Missouri Topic from the Missouri Conference on History in 2020.