Designing Utopia
Subtitle: John Ruskin's Urban Vision for Britain and America
Publisher: Black Rose Books
Published: June 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781551641317
Subjects: Economics; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Urban Planning; Architecture; Sociology; USA; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Political Science; Criticism; Planning; Architecture / General; General; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.
First sentence: John Ruskin was born in 1819 into a wealthy family.
Description: "Designing Utopia presents a broad overview of John Ruskin's life: the development of his views on architecture and urban design, as well as his views on social justice; how his vision was developed in his writings; and his efforts at practical application of that vision, in particular his efforts to build a guild based society."--BOOK JACKET.