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Dream Cities : Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World by Graham, Wade, author is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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A Lively, Unique, And Accessible Cultural History Of Modern Cities--from Suburbs, Downtown Districts, And Exurban Sprawl, To Shopping Malls And Sustainable Developments--that Allows Us To View Them Through The Planning, Design, Architects, And Movements That Inspired, Created, And Shaped Them. Dream Cities Explores Our Cities In A New Way--as Expressions Of Ideas, Often Conflicting, About How We Should Live, Work, Play, Make, Buy, And Believe. It Tells The Stories Of The Real Architects And Thinkers Whose Imagined Cities Became The Blueprints For The World We Live In. From The Nineteenth Century To Today, What Began As Visionary Concepts--sometimes Utopian, Sometimes Outlandish, Always Controversial--were Gradually Adopted And Constructed On A Massive Scale In Cities Around The World, From Dubai To Ulan Bator To London To Los Angeles. Wade Graham Uses The Lives Of The Pivotal Dreamers Behind These Concepts, As Well As Their Acolytes And Antagonists, To Deconstruct Our Urban Landscapes--the Houses, Towers, Civic Centers, Condominiums, Shopping Malls, Boulevards, Highways, And Spaces In Between--exposing The Ideals And Ideas Embodied In Each. From The Baroque Fantasy Villages Of Bert

Who reads Dream Cities : Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World?

Author

Graham, Wade, author

Publisher

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062196316

Category

history

Subjects

Art, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

3.48 / 5 (119 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14