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Terms and conditions applyUrban Utopias: The Built and Social Architectures of Alternative Settlements
Malcolm Miles
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Format: Book
Pages: 256
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: Nov 2007
Stock Code: 63331
Binding: Paperback
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Utopia tends to generate a bad press - regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions of a perfect world cannot accommodate the change that is necessary to a free and self-organising society. But people from diverse backgrounds are currently building a new society within the old, balancing literal and metaphorical utopianism, and demonstrating multiple possibilities for alternative futures and types of settlement.
Thousands of such places exist around the world, including intentional communities, eco-villages, permaculture plots, religious and secular retreats, co-housing projects, self-build schemes, projects for low-impact housing, and activist squats in urban and rural sites. This experience suggests, however, that when planning and design are not integral to alternative social formations, the modern dream to engineer a new society cannot be realised.
Urban Utopias brings together insights from literary, theoretical and practical Utopias, drawing out the characteristics of groups and places that are part of a new society. It links today's utopian experiments to historical and literary Utopias, and to theoretical problems in utopian thought.
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