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, ... Cheng’s ...

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

S OME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the ...

I finished a novel this morning that fits my present state of mind: “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887” by Edward Bellamy. A reader (thank you, Chris in Panorama Village!) alerted me to the ...