The Shape of Utopia: The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America

by Irene Cheng

How nineteenth-century social reformers devised a new set of radical blueprints for society

In the middle of the nineteenth century, a utopian impulse flourished in the United States through the circulation of architectural and urban plans predicated on geometrically distinct designs. Though the majority of such plans remained unrealized, The Shape of Utopia emphasizes the enduring importance of these radical propositions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517907462
• ISBN13: 9781517907464
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.