Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
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Overview
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.
Illustrated with 59 black-and-white photos throughout the text.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9798874715700 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins |
Publication date: | 06/18/2024 |
Product dimensions: | 5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x (d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Jean Carper is a nationally syndicated columnist and a leading authority on health and nutrition. Her columns appear in USA Weekend and King Features Syndicate.
She has authored numerous books, including the bestselling FoodYour Miracle Medicine and The Food Pharmacy.
Formerly an award-winning medical correspondent for CNN, Jean Carper lives in Washington, D.C., and Florida.
Check out www.usaweekend.com
Table of Contents
Introduction vii
1 Castles: Bertram Goodhue and the Romantic City 1
2 Monuments: Daniel Burnnam and the Drdored City 41
3 Slabs: Le Corbusier, Abbert Mosses, and the Rational City 77
4 Homesteads: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Anticity 115
5 Corals: Jane Jacobs, Andres Daany, and the Self-Organizing City 153
6 Malls: Victor Gruen Jon Jerde, an a the Shopping City 193
7 Habitats: Kenzo Tange, Norman Foster, and the Techno-Ecological City 243
Acknowledgments 282
Notes 283
Index 301