Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

"An excellent and novel exploration of key ideas behind city spaces and the behaviors they engender." —Wall Street Journal

From the acclaimed landscape designer, historian and author of American Eden, a lively, unique, and accessible cultural history of modern cities.

Dream Cities 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 ci...