Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and the Commons

by Justine M. Williams

Although the conventional wisdom has been to favor and encourage a rural-to-urban migration pattern, the recent deterioration of the large cities of America; the realization that some 75% of our U.S. population is crowded onto less than 2% of the land; the alarming size and density of these megalopolises, the newly discovered interest in environmental factors and in simpler life styles; together with some questioning of the social desirability of permitting the unchecked acquisition of title to the national territory by the corporate giants, have combined to force some discreet questioning of whether continuation of the unchecked human abandonment of the countryside is indeed in the national interest.

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