Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

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Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

Wade Graham
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From the acclaimed landscape designer, historian and author of American Eden, a lively, unique, and accessible cultural history of modern cities—from suburbs, downtown districts, and exurban sprawl, to shopping malls and "sustainable" developments—that allows us to view them through the planning, design, architects, and movements that inspired, created, and shaped them.

Dream Cities explores our cities in a new way—as expressions of ideas, often conflicting, about how we should live, work, play, make, buy, and believe. It tells the stories of the real architects and thinkers whose imagined cities became the blueprints for the world we live in.

From the nineteenth century to today, what began as visionary concepts—sometimes utopian, sometimes outlandish, always controversial—were gradually adopted and constructed on a massive scale in cities around the world, from Dubai to Ulan Bator to London to Los Angeles. Wade Graham uses the lives...

Año:
2015
Editorial:
HarperCollins
Idioma:
english
Archivo:
PDF, 6.89 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2015
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