- Preface
- Introduction: Dreams of a Future in a New World
- 1. Jefferson’s Blueprint for an Egalitarian Republic
- 2. A Nature’s Nation in the Garden of the World
- 3. Interpreting America’s Anti-Urban Bias
- 4. The Small Town as an Ideal: Puritan Covenants to Celebration, Florida
- 5. The Company Town Away from Town
- 6. “Grace Dwelling in It”: The Romance of the Suburb
- 7. Seeding Settlement: Homesteads, Land Grants, and Capital Seats
- 8. Making Nature Urbane: Olmsted and the Parks Movement
- 9. Utopians and Reformers in a Cauldron of Urbanization
- 10. Washington: City of Magnificent Intentions
- 11. Chicago 1910: Logistics Utopia
- 12. Autopia: The Drive to Disperse
- 13. Communitarian Journeys
- 14. Misguided Renewal: The Urban Clearance Decades
- 15. Walt Disney’s EPCOT and the New Town Movement
- 16. Fabulous and Commonplace: Seeking Paradise in Las Vegas
- 17. New Orleans and Attachment to Place
- 18. E-topia: Smart Cities for the Creative Class
- 19. Postscript: Heading to That Better Place
- Notes
- Illustration Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Index


City on a Hill
Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
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$35.00 • £28.95 • €31.50
ISBN 9780674987999
Publication Date: 10/29/2019