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City on a Hill : Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present/ by Alex Krieger

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019.Edition: 1st edDescription: 464 p.: ill.; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780674987999
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.121 KRC
Contents:
Introduction: Dreams of a Future in a New World
1. Jefferson’s Blueprint for an Egalitarian Republic
2. A Nature’s Nation in the Garden of the World
3. Interpreting America’s Anti-Urban Bias
4. The Small Town as an Ideal: Puritan Covenants to Celebration, Florida
5. The Company Town Away from Town
6. “Grace Dwelling in It”: The Romance of the Suburb
7. Seeding Settlement: Homesteads, Land Grants, and Capital Seats
8. Making Nature Urbane: Olmsted and the Parks Movement
9. Utopians and Reformers in a Cauldron of Urbanization
10. Washington: City of Magnificent Intentions
11. Chicago 1910: Logistics Utopia Color Plates
12. Autopia: The Drive to Disperse
13. Communitarian Journeys
14. Misguided Renewal: The Urban Clearance Decades
15. Walt Disney’s EPCOT and the New Town Movement
16. Fabulous and Commonplace: Seeking Paradise in Las Vegas
17. New Orleans and Attachment to Place
18. E-topia: Smart Cities for the Creative Class
19. Postscript: Heading to That Better Place
Summary: From the pilgrims to Las Vegas, hippie communes to the smart city, utopianism has shaped American landscapes. The Puritan small town was the New Jerusalem. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of rational farm grids. Reformers tackled slums through crusades of civic architecture. To understand American space, Alex Krieger looks to the drama of utopian ideals
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Books Books KU Central Library Rack No. : 04 Shelve No. : B-05 Reference Section (Non-Issuable Books) 307.121 KRC 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C-1 (NI) Not For Loan 53942

includes bibliography & index

Introduction: Dreams of a Future in a New World

1. Jefferson’s Blueprint for an Egalitarian Republic

2. A Nature’s Nation in the Garden of the World

3. Interpreting America’s Anti-Urban Bias

4. The Small Town as an Ideal: Puritan Covenants to Celebration, Florida

5. The Company Town Away from Town

6. “Grace Dwelling in It”: The Romance of the Suburb

7. Seeding Settlement: Homesteads, Land Grants, and Capital Seats

8. Making Nature Urbane: Olmsted and the Parks Movement

9. Utopians and Reformers in a Cauldron of Urbanization

10. Washington: City of Magnificent Intentions

11. Chicago 1910: Logistics Utopia Color Plates

12. Autopia: The Drive to Disperse

13. Communitarian Journeys

14. Misguided Renewal: The Urban Clearance Decades

15. Walt Disney’s EPCOT and the New Town Movement

16. Fabulous and Commonplace: Seeking Paradise in Las Vegas

17. New Orleans and Attachment to Place

18. E-topia: Smart Cities for the Creative Class

19. Postscript: Heading to That Better Place

From the pilgrims to Las Vegas, hippie communes to the smart city, utopianism has shaped American landscapes. The Puritan small town was the New Jerusalem. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of rational farm grids. Reformers tackled slums through crusades of civic architecture. To understand American space, Alex Krieger looks to the drama of utopian ideals

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