Malcolm Miles

Urban Utopias

The Built and Social Architectures of Alternative Settlements

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Produktbeschreibung

International in scope with a focus on everyday life and governance issues, Miles's innovative book looks at today's efforts to build a new society, exploring detailed case analyses within a wide theoretical and cross disciplinary framework.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 573g
• ISBN-13: 9780415375757
• ISBN-10: 0415375754
• Artikelnr.: 23593663

Autorenporträt

Malcolm Miles is Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Plymouth, UK, where he convenes the Critical Spaces Research Group and coordinates a research methods programme for the Faculty of Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Histories and Theories 1. Imagining Places: Literary Utopias and the Far-Away 2. Drawing Lines: Modernity as Utopia 3. Planning Harmony: Fourier and Utopian Socialism Part 2: Practices 4. New Cities 5. Social Utopias 6. Ecotopias: Frameworks 7. Ecotopias: Practices Part 3: Horizons 8. Mud-Brick Utopias 9. A Barefoot Society Part 4: Short Case Studies Case 1: Economy
Pennsylvania
USA Case 2: Arcosanti
Arizona
USA Case 3: Auroville
Tamil Nadu
India Case 4: Christiania
Copenhagen
Denmark Case 5: Ufa-fabrik
Berlin
Germany Case 6: Uzupio
Vilnius
Lithuania Case 7: Cambridge Co-Housing
Massachusetts
USA Case 8: Ecovillage at Ithaca
New York State
USA Case 9: Z.E.G.G
Belzig
Germany. Conclusion