Urban utopias : the built and social architectures of alternative settlement / Malcolm Miles.
Urban utopias : the built and social architectures of alternative settlement / Malcolm Miles.
Urban utopias : the built and social architectures of alternative settlement / Malcolm Miles.
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N307.77/5
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English
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Physical content
viii, 256 p. : ill.
Contents
Imagining places : literary utopias and the far-away -- Drawing lines : modernity as utopia -- Planning harmony : Fourier and utopian socialism -- New cities -- Social utopias -- Ecotopias : frameworks -- Ecotopias : practices -- Mud-brick utopias -- A barefoot society -- Case 1, Economy, Pennsylvan...
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Publisher
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2007.
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Summary
"The book is structured in four parts. In Part One, literary and theoretical Utopias from the early modern period to the nineteenth century are reconsidered. Part Two investigates twentieth-century urban utopianism and contemporary alternative settlements, focusing on social and environmental issues, activism and ceo-village living. Part Three look...
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Urban utopias : the built and social architectures of alternative settlement / Malcolm Miles.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N307.77/5
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74VK37ZKGyp3
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9780415375757 (hardback)
9780415375764 (softback)
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307.77
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991023743639702626
