From WSJbooks: 'The City on the Hill is the city we already live in, work in, breathe in, die in. We must now reimagine its true and perfect nature and carefully, patiently, yet forcefully, strive together toward it.'
Alex Krieger’s “City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present” provides us with a useful history of the influential ideals—some of them prophetic, some of them unrealistic, and others downright cruel and unjust—that have shaped American cities.
Many major figures thought they knew how to make America into a city on a hill, a utopia, a place where we could all live together in bliss and harmony. Their proposals have ranged from Thomas Jefferson’s vision of a society of homesteaders to Lyndon Johnson’s of newly minted live-work communities; from Ebenezer Howard’s garden suburb to George Pullman’s...
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