Urban fiction : strolling through ideal cities from antiquity to the present day / Gunther Feuerstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feuerstein, Günther.

Contributor:

Class of 1953 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visionary architecture.

Utopias.

Architecture and society.

City planning--History.

City planning.

History.

Physical Description:

414 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart : Edition Axel Menges, [2008]

Summary:

Dissatisfied with the world we live in, we have been longing since time immemorial for two opposing environments: the peaceful garden--a carefree paradise--and the New City--a harmonious community. For Gunther Feuerstein, all these cities and towns, though only fictitious, have long since been built, and he strolls through them together with the architects, planners, writers, and philosophers, just as Thomas More, Antonio Filarete, William Morris, and many others once led us through their cities.m

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

ISBN:

9783930698264

3930698269

OCLC:

237025887

Publisher Number:

99939773118