City on a hill : urban idealism in America from the Puritans to the present /

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, A...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Krieger, Alex, 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
City planning > United States > History.
Utopias > United States > History.
Cities and towns > United States > History.
Utopies > États-Unis > Histoire.
Villes > États-Unis > Histoire.
HISTORY / United States / General
Cities and towns.
City planning.
Utopias.
Stadtplanung.
Utopie.
Stadt > Gesellschaft > Geschichte.
United States.
History.
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