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Dream cities [electronic resource] : seven urban ideas that shape the world / Wade Graham.

by Graham, Wade, author.

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New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, c2016.

City planning -- History.

Cities and towns -- History.

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1 online resource (xii, 323 pages) : illustrations.

Castles : Bertram Goodhue and the romantic city -- Monuments : Daniel Burnham and the ordered city -- Slabs : Le Corbusier, Robert Moses, and the rational city -- Homesteads : Frank Lloyd Wright and the anticity -- Corals : Jane Jacobs, Andres Duany, and the self-organizing city -- Malls : Victor Gruen, Jon Jerde, and the shopping city -- Habitats : Kenzo Tange, Norman Foster, and the techno-ecological city.

"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 of the pivotal dreamers behind these concepts, as well as their acolytes and antagonists, to deconstruct our urban landscapes--the houses, towers, civic centers, condominiums, shopping malls, boulevards, highways, and spaces in between--exposing the ideals and ideas embodied in each. From the baroque fantasy villages of Bertram Goodhue to the superblocks of Le Corbusier's Radiant City to the pseudo-agrarian dispersal of Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City, our upscale leafy suburbs, downtown skyscraper districts, infotainment-driven shopping malls, and "sustainable" eco-developments are seen as never before. In this elegantly designed and illustrated book, Graham uncovers the original plans of brilliant, obsessed, and sometimes megalomaniacal designers, revealing the foundations of today's varied municipalities. Dream Cities is nothing less than a field guide to our modern urban world."--provided from Amazon.com.

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