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

Richard J. Williams enjoys a wide-ranging account of the utopianism that underpins the planning of towns and cities in the US

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October 17, 2019

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Richard J. Williams

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