London Thames and Hudson 2002

256pp illustrated. Very good with dust wrapper. Themed around western attempts to invent the perfect city, cradle of the ideal society. Coves architecture and town planning but also art, literature, philosophy and politics, this book takes us through the imaginary environments of a wide variety of fascinating and often controversial movements and figures, including Plato, Filtrete, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas More, Thomas Jefferson, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Robert Owen, William Morris, Ebenezer Howard, Bruno Taut, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright et. al. Useful and well illustrated introductory text.