Ideal Cities: Utopianism and the (Un) Built Environment. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
From: Contemporary Review
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Date: 8/1/2002
Ideal Cities: Utopianism and the (Un) Built Environment. Ruth Eaton. Thames & Hudson. [pounds sterling]39.95. 255 pages. ISBN 0-500-34186-9. Ideas about the perfect city have been part of European civilisation from the beginning. Hesiod wrote of it in 800 BC. Plato described it and the mediaeval Church often defined the Kingdom of God as the Heavenly Jerusalem. This book deals with those cities designed in the mind's eye by those who 'invented them in the conviction that they ...
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