Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798874715700
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 06/18/2024
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

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. An adjunct professor of public policy at Pepperdine University, he is the author of American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are.


Jean Carper is a nationally syndicated columnist and a leading authority on health and nutrition. Her columns appear in USA Weekend and King Features Syndicate.

She has authored numerous books, including the bestselling Food—Your Miracle Medicine and The Food Pharmacy.

Formerly an award-winning medical correspondent for CNN, Jean Carper lives in Washington, D.C., and Florida.

 

Check out www.usaweekend.com


Paul Bellantoni is a Los Angeles based, award-winning narrator and voice actor.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

1 Castles: Bertram Goodhue and the Romantic City 1

2 Monuments: Daniel Burnnam and the Drdored City 41

3 Slabs: Le Corbusier, Abbert Mosses, and the Rational City 77

4 Homesteads: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Anticity 115

5 Corals: Jane Jacobs, Andres Daany, and the Self-Organizing City 153

6 Malls: Victor Gruen Jon Jerde, an a the Shopping City 193

7 Habitats: Kenzo Tange, Norman Foster, and the Techno-Ecological City 243

Acknowledgments 282

Notes 283

Index 301

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