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"A DREAM THAT NEEDS ABUILDIN'" Written for the general audience of all people who believe a "better world" is possible, postulates the need for a new model city in which the challenges for the next millennia are addressed. Russell Voorhees proposes the construction of a new "Utopia" where new ideas for architecture, environment, social responsibility & economics can be addressed & tested. "A DREAM...." reviews the long history of the "perfect" city, reviewing the origins of the idea & working through the thinking of Thomas More (Utopia) & Frank Lloyd Wright. The book features the Wright concept for a model city he called "Broadacre", & expands on these great ideas to improve the concept, &, ultimately, the most important social machine of our age...the civilized social structure we call "the city." The result & proposal of the book is a plan to build a MODEL-UTOPIAN-PARADIGM city of 50,000 population, having international visibility. The book, in highly readable format, is planned for a national marketing introduction in the early part of 1994.Voorhees, Russell is the author of 'Dream That Needs Abuildin'' with ISBN 9780963879103 and ISBN 0963879103.
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