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Ideal Cities: Utopiansim and the (Un)Built Environment by Ruth Eaton: Used
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2002-09-01
- Pages
- 255
- ISBN
- 9780500341865
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
ISBN-10
0500341869
ISBN-13
9780500341865
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2263926
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ideal Cities : Utopianism and the (Un) Built Environment
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, General, Utopias
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Architecture
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
62 Oz
Item Length
11.5 in
Item Width
9.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-098727
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
758/.7
Synopsis
Ideal Cities presents a vast panorama spanning more than two millennia of Western attempts to invent the perfect city, cradle of the ideal society. Embracing not only architecture and town planning but also art, literature, philosophy and politics, this book takes us through the imaginary environments of a wide variety of fascinating and often controversial movements and figures, including Plato, Filtrete, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas More, Thomas Jefferson, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Charles Fourier, Etienne Cabet, Robert Owen, William Morris, Ebenezer Howard, Bruno Taut, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, the European Situationists, the Japanese Metabolists, Archigram, Superstudio and many more. In this richly illustrated book, the author explores the ability of ideal cities to stimulate reflection and change, and suggests under what conditions they might continue to exercise their vital function in relation to the urban environment of the future. The ideal cities presented by Ruth Eaton exist for the most part in the virtual domain of ideas, treading the fine line between dream and nightmare. While it is true that notorious attempts to cross the border to reality have greatly discredite, The author explores the ability of ideal cities to stimulate reflection and change, and suggests under what conditions they might continue to exercise their vital function in relation to the urban environment of the future. Book jacket.
LC Classification Number
NA209.5.E18 2002
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