TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krieger,Alex
TI  - City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present 
SN  - 9780674246447
AV  - HT167 .K74 2019
U1  - 307.1/2160973 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - City planning
KW  - Utopias
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; Introduction: Dreams of a Future in a New World --; 1. Jefferson’s Blueprint for an Egalitarian Republic --; 2. A Nature’s Nation in the Garden of the World --; 3. Interpreting America’s Anti-Urban Bias --; 4. The Small Town as an Ideal: Puritan Covenants to Celebration, Florida --; 5. The Company Town Away from Town --; 6. “Grace Dwelling in It”: The Romance of the Suburb --; 7. Seeding Settlement: Homesteads, Land Grants, and Capital Seats --; 8. Making Nature Urbane: Olmsted and the Parks Movement --; 9. Utopians and Reformers in a Cauldron of Urbanization --; 10. Washington: City of Magnificent Intentions --; 11. Chicago 1910: Logistics Utopia --; 12. Autopia: The Drive to Disperse --; 13. Communitarian Journeys --; 14. Misguided Renewal: The Urban Clearance Decades --; 15. Walt Disney’s EPCOT and the New Town Movement --; 16. Fabulous and Commonplace: Seeking Paradise in Las Vegas --; 17. New Orleans and Attachment to Place --; 18. E-topia: Smart Cities for the Creative Class --; 19. Postscript: Heading to That Better Place --; Notes --; Illustration Credits --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access
N2  - From the pilgrims to Las Vegas, hippie communes to the smart city, utopianism has shaped American landscapes. The Puritan small town was the New Jerusalem. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of rational farm grids. Reformers tackled slums through crusades of civic architecture. To understand American space, Alex Krieger looks to the drama of utopian ideals
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