Research Catalog

Title

Urban fiction : strolling through ideal cities from antiquity to the present day / Gunther Feuerstein ; [translation into English, Ilze Müller].

Author

Feuerstein, Günther.

Publication

Stuttgart : Edition Axel Menges, 2008.

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Details

Description

414 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 29 cm

Summary

For the author, some cities and towns, though only fictitious, have long since been built and he strolls through them in company with the architects, planners, writers and philosophers, just as Thomas More and many others once led us through their cities.

Alternative Title

Strolling through ideal cities from antiquity to the present day

Subject

• Visionary architecture
• Utopias
• Architecture and society
• City planning > History
• Cities and towns in literature
• Utopias
• visionary architecture
• City planning
• Idealstadt
• Utopische Architektur

Genre/Form

• History.
• Utopian fiction.

Note

• Purchase supported by the Elise and Wesley Wright, Jr. '51 Marquand Book Fund.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-408) and index.

Contents

Myths and legends -- Antiquity -- The Middle Ages, c. 50-1300 -- Renaissance, c. 1300-1650 -- Baroque, Rococo, c. 1630-1760 -- Enlightenment, Classicism, c. 1750-1850 -- Early socialists, philanthropists, c. 1790-1860 -- Dreamers, travelers, realists, c. 1850-1920 -- Art, expression, c. 1900-30 -- Innovators, visionaries, c. 1890-1940 -- Policy, violence, c. 1870-1945 -- Naïve worlds, c. 1880 to the present day -- A new era, after 1945.

ISBN

• 9783930698264
• 3930698269

LCCN

2008459202

OCLC

• ocn237025887
• 237025887
• SCSB-1499550

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library