Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia: Abandoning Babylon

ISBN-13: 9780198861447 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 576 str.

Nathaniel Robert (Associate Professor of Architectural Histo

Recenzje

Nathaniel Robert Walker's detailed and absorbing Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia...works painstakingly to help us understand the rise of the suburbs in the first place and, more particularly, the language of utopian possibility associated by some reformers with peripheral, suburban, and exurban spaces...Walker is first-rate at bringing into productive conversation an enormous range of well-known and less-familiar texts, spanning centuries and continents. New turning points emerge in a long tradition of urban and suburban literary engagement...a capacious, erudite, and fascinating examination of utopian discourse.

O autorze

Nathaniel Robert Walker is Associate Professor of Architectural History at The Catholic University of America. He earned his PhD at Brown University, and studies the relationships between architecture, aesthetics, public space, urban design, political power, and dreams of the future, both utopian and apocalyptic. He has published essays in ARRIS, Buildings and Landscapes, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Utopian Studies, and a number of edited volumes, including Suffragette City: Women, Politics and the Built Environment, which he co-edited with E. Darling. He has curated two exhibitions dealing with the connections between architecture, urbanism, and human dreams: Building Expectations: Past and Present Visions of the Architectural Future (Bell Gallery, Providence), and The City Luminous: Architectures of Hope in an Age of Fear (City Gallery, Charleston, co-curated with J. Streit).