The article is supplemented by a series of sidebars taking a look at land trusts from across the country. The largest land protection organization in the U.S. is The Nature Conservancy . The national umbrella organization for land trusts is the Land Trust Alliance which has a useful web site. Land conservation can also be used as a way to structure urban growth. This harkens back to the ideas of Patrick Geddes and Benton MacKaye, leaders of the regional planning movement, who early in the 20th century saw regional planning as a way of channeling metropolitan growth.
Side roads cross the main roads at regular intervals.
In this way the area with its several villages would become engulfed by the metropolitan flood. The outstanding topographic feature consists of the range of hills and mountains encircling the locality, together with the four ridges reaching toward the central city. This could be reserved as a common public ground, serving the double purpose of a public forest and a public playground.