{"product_id":"dream-cities-seven-urban-ideas-that-shape-the-world-9780062196316","title":"Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the acclaimed landscape designer  historian and author of American Eden  a lively  unique  and accessible cultural history of modern citiesfrom suburbs  downtown districts  and exurban sprawl  to shopping malls and sustainable developmentsthat allows us to view them through the planning  design  architects  and movements that inspired  created  and shaped them. Dream Cities explores our cities in a new wayas 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. From the nineteenth century to today  what began as visionary conceptssometimes utopian  sometimes outlandish  always controversialwere 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 landscapesthe houses  towers  civic centers  condominiums  shopping malls  boulevards  highways  and spaces in betweenexposing the ideals and ideas embodied in each. From the baroque fantasy villages of Bertram Goodhue to the superblocks of Le Corbusiers Radiant City to the pseudo-agrarian dispersal of Frank Lloyd Wrights Broadacre City  our upscale leafy suburbs  downtown skyscraper districts  infotainment-driven shopping malls  and sustainable eco-developments are seen as never before. In this elegantly designed and illustrated book  Graham uncovers the original plans of brilliant  obsessed  and sometimes megalomaniacal designers  revealing the foundations of todays varied municipalities. Dream Cities is nothing less than a field guide to our modern urban world. Illustrated with 59 black-and-white photos throughout the text.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646898561077,"sku":"ByrdShop_0062196316","price":30.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780062196316.jpg?v=1781680799","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/dream-cities-seven-urban-ideas-that-shape-the-world-9780062196316","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}