Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790-1975

by Dolores Hayden

Book Overview

From the time of its discovery, the new world was regarded by American settlers as a new Eden and a new Jerusalem. Although individual pioneers' visions of paradise were inevitably corrupted by reality, some determined ideatists carved out enclaves in order to develop collective models of what they believed to be more perfect societies. All such communitarian groups consciously attempted to express their social ideals in their buildings and landscapes;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262080826
• ISBN13: 9780262080828
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 401 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.