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Dream Cities is a lively, unique and accessible cultural history of
modern cities which allows us to view them through the planning,
design, architects and movements that inspired and built them. It
explores our urban areas in a new way - as expressions of ideas,
often conflicting, about how we should live, work, play, make, buy
and think - and tells the stories of the people who imagined the
cities that became the blueprints for the world we live in.
Starting in the nineteenth century and continuing 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, London to Los Angeles. Our leafy suburbs, city
skyscraper districts, infotainment-driven shopping malls and
'sustainable' eco-developments are seen here as never before, from
the fantasy villages of Bertram Goodhue to the superblocks of Le
Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City. In this
elegantly designed and illustrated book, Graham uncovers the
original plans of brilliant, obsessed and sometimes megalomaniacal
designers, revealing the foundations of today's varied urban
environment. Dream Cities is nothing less than a field guide to our
modern world.
Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between
environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii's Molokai
island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the
arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century
European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows
how the control of resources-especially water-in a fragile, highly
variable environment has had profound effects on the history of
Hawaii. Wade Graham examines the ways environmental variation
repeatedly shapes human social and economic structures and how, in
turn, man-made environmental degradation influences and reshapes
societies. A key finding of this study is how deep structures of
place interact with distinct cultural patterns across different
societies to produce similar social and environmental outcomes, in
both the Polynesian and modern eras-a case of historical
isomorphism with profound implications for global environmental
history.
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