Seven American utopias : the architecture of communitarian socialism, 1790-1975 / Dolores Hayden.

Author: Hayden, Dolores.

Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1976.

Descriptionix, 401 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Note:Extensively illustrated

Note:Includes index.

Note:I. SEEKING UTOPIA: 1. Idealism and the American environment -- 2. The ideal community: garden, machine, or model home? -- 3. The communal building process -- II. BUILDING UTOPIA: 4. Heavenly and earthly space -- 5. Eden versus Jerusalem -- 6. The architecture of passional attraction -- 7. The architecture of complex marriage -- 8. Communes within communes -- 9. The disintegration of association -- 10. Feminism and eclecticism -- III. LEARNING FROM UTOPIA: 11. Edge city, heart city, drop city: communal building today -- 12. Premature truths -- Appendix A: Comparative chart of communities -- Appendix B: List of communitarian settlements to 1860.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 367-379.

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