Green Belt, White City: Race and the Natural Landscape in Boulder, Colorado

In a commonsense understanding of the landscape, the problems of class-based exclusion and overwhelming whiteness seem external to such a pure, simple, and sometimes spiritual relationship between the people and their natural landscape. [...] the relationship is fostered through everyday interactions, representations, and policy making. [...] the model is touted as an example to follow, with barely a second thought for the jettisoned social histories of the landscape not amenable to the discourse of conservation.