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Title: City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present

Author : Alex Krieger

Pages : pages

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Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 0674987993

ISBN-13 : 9780674987999

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

Read Online and Download City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present. A sweeping history of American cities and towns, and the utopian aspirations that shaped them, by one of America's leading urban planners and scholars.The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to start again and build the perfect community. Those messianic days are gone. But as Alex Krieger argues in City on a Hill, any attempt at deep understanding of how the country has developed must recognize the persistent and dramatic consequences of utopian dreaming. Even as ideals have changed, idealism itself has for better and worse shaped our world of bricks and mortar, macadam, parks, and farmland. As he traces this uniquely American story from the Pilgrims to the "smart city," Krieger delivers a striking new history of our built environment.The Puritans were the first utopians, seeking a New Jerusalem in the New England villages that still stand as models of small-town life. In the Age of Revolution, Thomas .

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

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