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| Genre/Form: | Case studies Cas, Études de |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Malcolm Miles |
| ISBN: | 9780415375764 0415375762 9780415375757 0415375754 |
| OCLC Number: | 134990404 |
| Description: | viii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Imagining places : literary utopias and the far-away -- Drawing lines : modernity and utopia -- Planning harmony : Charles Fourier and utopian socialism -- New cities -- Social utopias -- Ecotopias : frameworks -- Ecotopias : practices -- Mud-brick utopias -- A barefoot society -- Case 1, Economy, Pennsylvania, USA -- Case 2, Arcosanti, Arizona, USA -- Case 3, Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India -- Case 4, Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark -- Case 5, Ufa-Fabrik, Berlin, Germany -- Case 6, Uzupio, Vilinius, Lithuania -- Case 7, Cambridge Cohousing, Massachusetts, USA -- Case 8, Ecovillage at Ithaca, New York State, USA -- Case 9, ZEGG, Belzig, Germany. |
| Responsibility: | Malcolm Miles. |
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Abstract:
Divided into four parts, this book investigates twentieth-century urban utopianism and contemporary alternative settlements focusing on social and environmental issues, activism and eco-village living. It links utopian experiments to historical and literary Utopias, and to theoretical problems in utopian thought.
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- Utopias.
- Utopias -- Case studies.
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- Collective settlements.
- Collective settlements -- Case studies.
- Utopies.
- Utopies -- Cas, Études de.
- Communes (Contre-culture)
- Communes (Contre-culture) -- Cas, Études de.
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- Utopie.
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