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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krieger, Alex, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--United States--History.

City planning.

Utopias--United States--History.

Utopias.

Cities and towns--United States--History.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (497 pages)

Other Title:

city on a hill

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

ISBN:

9780674246454

0674246454

9780674246447

0674246446

OCLC:

1224278114