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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Words of Thanks
Contents
List of Figures
List of Plates
Introduction: The Dream Before the Dream
1. “God Made the Country, Man Made the Town”: The Foundations of Modern Suburban Utopias
In Their Vain Attempt: Eden vs. Babel
The Godly City: On Earth as It Is in Heaven?
The Nature of the Beautiful: Plato’s Perfected Polis
Thomas More and the Extent of Our Horizon
The Great Restoration: Science as the Means to the Millennium
The Englishman Swears to “Search Out Some Village”
2. Socialist Schemes and Suburban Dreams
Dense Masses of Houses: Dread the Industrial City
A New Earthly Paradise: The First Industrial Socialist Utopias
The Greatest Green for the Greatest Number
Crystal Palaces vs. Crooked Lanes: The Last Owenite
Greater Perfection: The Future of (Fictional) Architecture
3. Urban Non-Fiction and Suburban Science Fiction
Everything Bad and Vicious: Non-Fiction Urban Horror Stories
Bulwer-Lytton’s Science-Fiction Sensation
Reach Unto Heaven: Urban London vs. Suburban Mars
The Future of the Metropolis: Towers, Parks, and Deadly Ruin
4. Empires of Hygiene and Horror
Hygienic Homes for Hygienic Humans
Unlamented London: The Mount of Our Former Folly
George MacDonald and the Perfectly Monstrous Metropolis
Terrace Homes, Tile, Glass, and Greensward: A City of Health
Building Hygeia: To Stand Practically in Gardens
Utopia and Dystopia Collide: The Boiling-Down Establishments
5. The Republic of the Future
A City Spread Over a Large Garden
A City of Eve vs. the Suburbs of Adam
Gardens of Happiness: Suburban Futures Gain Currency
Progress and Poverty: Setting the Stage for Desperate Dreaming
Embosomed Amid Trees: American Utopias Take the Scene
The Socialists and the Spiritualists Strike at the City
Central Park: The Redemption of New York
6. Architecture Under Nationalism
Looking Backward Hits the Streets
Other Dreams, Nearly Drowned Out
Looking Further Forward: Suburban Sequels
Dirty Discomfort: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Future
After London: Morris Gathers His Strength
The Clearing of Misery and the Scattering of Houses
The Future of the Apartment Building: Tenement or Tower?
Verdure around Each Edifice: Putnam’s Nationalist Boston
7. Gardening in the Apocalypse
Millions of Dancing Lights: Americans Imagine Great Cities
The New Jerusalem Descends Upon Chicago
Urban and Suburban Impulses Compete
The Suburbs Triumph: Let the Cities Fall to Ruin
Towers in Parks: Gillette’s Suburban Metropolis
Bellamy’s Final Question: How Far Does This Park Extend?
No Ideal of City Life: The Contested Streets of London
Swept Away Into the Scrap-Heap: Letchworth vs. London
From Theory to Practice: Bridging Dreams and Reality
H. G. Wells Summons the Apocalypse
The Shape of Things to Come: I Told You So
Conclusion: “And Was Jerusalem Builded Here?”
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