City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present by Alex Krieger

City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present

Alex Krieger

464 pages • first pub 2019 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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A sweeping history of American cities and towns, and the utopian aspirations that shaped them, by one of America's leading urban planners and scholars.The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a ...

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