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

Dedication
Epigraphs
Contents
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