{"product_id":"9780062196330","title":"Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"An excellent and novel exploration of key ideas behind city spaces and the behaviors they engender.\" -\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   From the acclaimed landscape designer, historian and author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Eden\u003c\/i\u003e, a lively, unique, and accessible cultural history of modern cities.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDream Cities\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   From the baroque fantasy villages of Bertram Goodhue to the superblocks of Le Corbusier's Radiant City to the pseudo-agrarian dispersal of Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City, our upscale leafy suburbs, downtown skyscraper districts, infotainment-driven shopping malls, and \"sustainable\" eco-developments are seen as never before. Elegantly designed and illustrated, \u003ci\u003eDream Cities\u003c\/i\u003e is a field guide to our modern urban world.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \"An intriguing architectural history.\" -\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \"Enjoyable . . . well researched, posing an interesting historic tie from the past to the present.\" -\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \"Absolutely engrossing.\" -Ross King, author of \u003ci\u003eBrunelleschi's Dome\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46556478898417,"sku":"9780062196330","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780062196330_p0.jpg?v=1766438607","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780062196330","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}