Main entry:

Hayden, Dolores, author.

Title & Author:

Seven American utopias : the architecture of communitarian socialism, 1790-1975 / Dolores Hayden.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [1976]
©1976

Description:

ix, 401 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-379) and index.
I. Seeking utopia -- 1. Idealism and the American environment -- 2. The ideal community: Garden, machine, or model home? -- 3. The communal building process -- II. Building utopia -- 4. Heavenly and earthly space -- 5. Eden versus Jerusalem -- 6. The architecture of passional attraction -- 7. The architecture of complex marriage -- 8. Communes within communes -- 9. The disintegration of association -- 10. Feminism and eclecticism -- III. Learning from utopia -- 11. Edge city, heart city, drop city: Communal building today -- 12. Premature truths -- Appendix A. Comparative chart of communities -- Appendix B. List of communitarian settlements to 1860.
Catalogue of the James J. Kopp Collection, 479
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Dust jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0262080826
9780262080828
0262580373 (pbk.)
9780262580373 (pbk.)

Subject:

Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Utopias United States.
Utopias.
Utopies États-Unis.
Architektur
Utopie
United States.
USA
Utopian communities Environment planning Influence of ideologies United States, 1790-1960

Form/genre:

Utopian fiction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 118460
Call No.: ID 2475 HX653.H39; ID:86-B3952
Status: External loan