Dream cities
Subtitle: seven urban ideas that shape the world
By: Wade Graham
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780062196316
Subjects: City planning; History; Cities and towns
Description: A 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Castles : Bertram Goodhue and the Romantic city; title: Monuments : Daniel Burnham and the ordered city; title: Slabs: Le Corbusier, Robert Moses, and the rational city; title: Homesteads : Frank Lloyd Wright and the anticity; title: Corals : Jane Jacobs, Andres Duany, and the self-organizing city; title: Malls : Victory Gruen, Jon Jerdo, and the shopping City; title: Habitats : Kenzo Tange, Norman Foster, and the techno-ecological city.