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Alex Krieger. 3.91. 86 ratings19 reviews. A sweeping history of American cities and towns, and the utopian aspirations that shaped them, by one of America's leading urban planners and scholars. The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained.
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Dec 11, 2019 · To a surprising and pleasurable degree, the chapters of City on a Hill capture the experience of sitting in on lectures that are stand-alone but interrelated gems where Alex “reads” a vast variety of American landscapes and cityscapes over four centuries.
Review of City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present, by Alex Krieger, JAE Online, March 12, 2021. All images used in this review are courtesy of Harvard University Press.
Oct 29, 2019 · Panoramic, original, and insightful, City on a Hill is a genuine achievement, and reflects and embodies Krieger’s decades-long involvement both with urban design and American urban history. This book deserves to be the most widely read comprehensive history of the American city.
Jan 10, 2020 · The author thoughtfully illuminates the nuances of such dreams, spanning a spectrum from Biblically themed imagery of a city of God (the Massachusetts Bay Puritan colonists’ City on a Hill of the book’s title) to Chicago as the hub of triumphant capitalism.
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Jun 28, 2010 · First, we see what “city on a hill” really means: it doesn’t mean perfect, it means visible. They will be under a microscope, unable to hide their failures from all the eyes trained on them. No one wants to live in a city on a hill, because all of your faults and failings are in plain view.
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Apr 27, 2020 · Join urban planner and professor Alex Krieger as he explores the dreams and ideals that have long influenced our urban settlements, as told in his new book, “City on a Hill.”
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