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Ideal cities : utopianism and the (Un)built environment / Ruth Eaton

By: Eaton, Ruth.
Publisher: New York : Thames & Hudson, 2002Description: 255 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) maps, ports. (some col.) ; 29 cm.ISBN: 0500341869.Subject(s): Architecture and society | City planning -- History | Utopias in art | Visionary architectureDDC classification: 307.1216
Contents:
Acknowledgements. - 1. Introduction. - 2. Sources of the City from High Antiquity to the Middle Ages. - 3. The Idealization of the City from the Renaissance onwards. - 4. Exporting the Ideal to the New World. - 5. The Horizons of Knowledge. - 6. The search for Order in the Age of Great Cities. - 7. Cities for the Machine Age. - 8. The Revolt of the Citizen. - 9. Conclusion. - Notes. - Selected bibliography. - Index. - Photograhic Credits.
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First published in hardcover in the United States of America in 2002 by Thames & Hudson

First published in the United Kingdom in 2002 by Thames & Hudson

With 300 illustrations, 250 in colour

Acknowledgements. - 1. Introduction. - 2. Sources of the City from High Antiquity to the Middle Ages. - 3. The Idealization of the City from the Renaissance onwards. - 4. Exporting the Ideal to the New World. - 5. The Horizons of Knowledge. - 6. The search for Order in the Age of Great Cities. - 7. Cities for the Machine Age. - 8. The Revolt of the Citizen. - 9. Conclusion. - Notes. - Selected bibliography. - Index. - Photograhic Credits.