Imaginary Cities
A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between
Recommended by Sarah Churchwell, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #98 in Urban Planning
For as long as humans have gathered in cities, those cities have had their shining—or shadowy—counterparts. Imaginary cities, potential cities, future cities, perfect cities. It is as if the city itself, its inescapable gritty reality and elbow-to-elbow nature, demands we call into being some alternative, yearned-for better place.
This book is about those cities. It’s neither a history of grand plans nor a literary exploration of the utopian impulse, but rather something different, hybrid, idiosyncratic. It’s a magpie’s book, full of characters and incidents and ideas drawn from... more
This book is about those cities. It’s neither a history of grand plans nor a literary exploration of the utopian impulse, but rather something different, hybrid, idiosyncratic. It’s a magpie’s book, full of characters and incidents and ideas drawn from... more
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Sarah Churchwell Wish I’d clocked this before my event today on history of America First for @FavershamLit. I’d most def have shouted out to the great man, & let’s add Black Reconstruction in America as a book that rewrote US history, tho white America refused to see it for half a century. https://t.co/z332g57G4Q (Source)
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