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Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
Wade Graham
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Description for Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
Paperback. The ideas that became the blueprints for the world we live in. Num Pages: 336 pages, 59. BIC Classification: AMVD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 30. Weight in Grams: 454.
Dream Cities is a lively, unique and accessible cultural history of modern cities which allows us to view them through the planning, design, architects and movements that inspired and built them. It explores our urban areas in a new way - as expressions of ideas, often conflicting, about how we should live, work, play, make, buy and think - and tells the stories of the people who imagined the cities that became the blueprints for the world we live in. Starting in the nineteenth century and continuing to today, what began as visionary concepts - sometimes utopian, ... Read more
Dream Cities is a lively, unique and accessible cultural history of modern cities which allows us to view them through the planning, design, architects and movements that inspired and built them. It explores our urban areas in a new way - as expressions of ideas, often conflicting, about how we should live, work, play, make, buy and think - and tells the stories of the people who imagined the cities that became the blueprints for the world we live in. Starting in the nineteenth century and continuing to today, what began as visionary concepts - sometimes utopian, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445659732
SKU
V9781445659732
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About Wade Graham
Wade Graham is a Los Angeles-based garden designer, historian, and writer whose work on the environment, landscape, urbanism, and the arts has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, the Los Angeles Times, Outside, and other publications. He received a BA in comparative literature from Columbia University, and an MA and PhD in U.S. history at UCLA. He teaches urban and ... Read more
Reviews for Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
`An ambitious study of the forms and ideas of the contemporary city.'
New York Times `An excellent and novel exploration of key ideas behind city spaces ... Mr Graham is as masterly as a novelist ... He contends that the seven ideas that he considers are ones that shape the world ... with a continuing influence on ... Read more
New York Times `An excellent and novel exploration of key ideas behind city spaces ... Mr Graham is as masterly as a novelist ... He contends that the seven ideas that he considers are ones that shape the world ... with a continuing influence on ... Read more