Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction: Dreams of a Future in a New World 1
5. 1. Jefferson’s Blueprint for an Egalitarian Republic 15
6. 2. A Nature’s Nation in the Garden of the World 35
7. 3. Interpreting America’s Anti-Urban Bias 55
8. 4. The Small Town as an Ideal: Puritan Covenants to Celebration, Florida 69
9. 5. The Company Town Away from Town 89
10. 6. “Grace Dwelling in It”: The Romance of the Suburb 109
11. 7. Seeding Settlement: Homesteads, Land Grants, and Capital Seats 133
12. 8. Making Nature Urbane: Olmsted and the Parks Movement 151
13. 9. Utopians and Reformers in a Cauldron of Urbanization 175
14. 10. Washington: City of Magnificent Intentions 191
15. 11. Chicago 1910: Logistics Utopia 211
16. 12. Autopia: The Drive to Disperse 231
17. 13. Communitarian Journeys 251
18. 14. Misguided Renewal: The Urban Clearance Decades 267
19. 15. Walt Disney’s EPCOT and the New Town Movement 291
20. 16. Fabulous and Commonplace: Seeking Paradise in Las Vegas 307
21. 17. New Orleans and Attachment to Place 321
22. 18. E-topia: Smart Cities for the Creative Class 335
23. 19. Postscript: Heading to That Better Place 349
24. Notes 359
25. Illustration Credits 403
26. Acknowledgments 413
27. Index 417