Audio Books →Dream Cities Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World [Audiobook]

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English | ASIN: B0CQZ2TQ81 | 2024 | 9 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Wade Graham
Narrator: Paul Bellantoni
Landscape designer and historian Wade Graham follows the acclaimed American Eden with a lively, accessible cultural history of modern cities-from suburbs, downtown districts, and exurban sprawl, to shopping malls and "sustainable" developments-seen through the lens of planning, design, and the architects and movements behind them. 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 cities became the blueprints for the world we live in. 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.