Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790-1975
Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790-1975
$45.00
Hayden, Dolores
Cl. Cambridge, 1976
From the time of its discovery, the new world was regarded by American settlers as a new Eden and a new Jerusalem. Although individual pioneers' visions of paradise were inevitably corrupted by reality, some determined ideatists carved out enclaves in order to develop collective models of what they believed to be more perfect societies. All such communitarian groups consciously attempted to express their social ideals in their buildings and landscapes; invariably, ideological predispositions can be inferred from a close study of the environments they created. The interplay between ideology and architecture, the social design and the physical design of American utopian communities, is the basis of this remarkable book by Dolores Hayden.
Book ID: 17875
401 pp., many B&W illus.
