Urban Utopias: The Built and Social Architectures of Alternative Settlements

by Malcolm Miles

Book Overview

Utopia tends to generate a bad press - regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions of a perfect world cannot accommodate the change that is necessary to a free and self-organizing society. But people from diverse backgrounds are currently building a new society within the old, balancing literal and metaphorical utopianism, and demonstrating plural possibilities for alternative futures and types of settlement. Thousands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415375762
• ISBN13: 9780415375764
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"