Urban Fiction – Strolling through Ideal Cities from Antiquity to the Present Day

contents

Introduction

1. Myths and legends

2. Antiquity

3. The Middle Ages, c. 50–1300

4. Renaissance, c. 1300–1650

4.1. Italy

4.2. England

4.3. Germany

4.4. France, Netherlands

5. Baroque, Rococo, c. 1630–1760

5.1. France, Spain

5.2. England, America

5.3. Germany, Austria, Netherlands

5.4. Italy

6. Enlightenment, Classicism, c. 1750–1850

6.1. France

6.2. England, Italy

7. Early socialists, philanthropists, c. 1780–1860

7.1. America, England

7.2. France, Russia, Germany

8. Dreamers, travelers, realists, c. 1850–1920

8.1. America, England

8.2. France, Italy, Germany, Austria

9. Art, expression, c. 1900–30

9.1. Germany. Switzerland. Austria

9.2. Russia

10. Innovators, visionaries, c. 1890–1940

10.1. Europe

10.2. America

11. Policy, violence, c. 1870–1945

11.1. Germany, Austria

11.2. England, Israel

11.3. Czechoslovakia, Russia

11.4. Italy, Germany

12. Naïve worlds, c. 1880–

12.1. A private cosmos

12.2. The worlds of chiIdren

13. A new era, after 1945

13.1. Japan. China

13.2. England

13.3. France, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain

13.4. Germany, Switzerland

17. Italy, Greece

13.6. America, Africa, Asia

13.7. Russia

13.8. Austria

13.9 Writers, filmmakers, artists

13.10. Virtual reality. Computer city

13.11. Spirituality

Bibliography

Index of names

Photo credits