“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 ...

Discover the fascinating story of the Oneida Community, a radical 19th-century society that shared everything, including ...

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 ...

More than just flatware, the Oneida Community Mansion House is packed with radical history and secrets you didn’t learn in ...

Throughout the 19th century, vegetarianism was all ... The world wars of the 20th century shattered the utopian aspirations ...

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 ...

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 ...