“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 ...

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 ...

Vermont has long been a magnet for utopian thinkers—from religious communes to back-to-the-landers—each reshaping the state’s ...

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 ...

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

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 ...