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Practicing Utopia:

An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement

2016 || Hardcover || Rosemary Wakeman || University of Chicago Press

The typical town springs up around a natural resource—a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor—or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with “new towns,” which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are often intended to break from the tendencies of past development. New towns aren’t a new thing—ancient Phoenicians named their colonies Qart Hadasht, or New City—but these utopian developments saw a resurgence in the twentieth century.

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions / 4th Edition

2012 || Paperback || Thomas S. Kuhn || University of Chicago Press

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were-and still are. "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" is that kind of book. When it was first published in 1962, it was a landmark event in the history and philosophy of science.

And fifty years later, it still has many lessons t...