“And when utopia is busted, it’s really, really hard to repair.” View of a 19th-century Icarian colony Courtesy of Cathy Riley / French Icarian Colony Foundation These tensions came to a ...

Cheng contends that the complex legacy of utopian thought and 19th-century architectural experimentation includes Ebenezer Howard’s garden city planning—not typically thought of today, she writes, as ...

The grid city of 19th-century Barcelona, designed from the ground up as an ideal townscape by the socialist engineer Ildefons Cerdà, is the biggest example of would-be Utopian town design that ...

The physical layering of utopian life on particular plots of land is not so unusual in the United States. Once an 18th- or 19th-century utopian community had cultivated a tract for communal living, ...

AN ASSASSIN IN UTOPIA: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President’s Murder, by Susan Wels What do an experiment in free love, a renowned newspaper editor with a penchant for ...

Her latest novel, “Happy Land,” about a real-life utopian community of emancipated ... Founded in the late 19th century on 205 acres spanning the border of North and South Carolina, the ...

Utopia described an imaginary island where ... called “phalansteries;” urban planner Ebenezer Howard’s 19th-century garden city layouts; and architect Paolo Soleri’s “arcologies ...

Slouching Towards Utopia is as much about politics as economics ... one that DeLong traces to the writings of two men both born in late-nineteenth-century Vienna. One was Friedrich Hayek, who ...