Utopias SP13

Submitted by cuz on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 10:17

List of utopian or intentional communities (in no special order):

  • Plato (Republic)
  • Thomas More (Utopia)
  • Francis Bacon (New Atlantis)
  • Campanella (City of the Sun) (technology, Christianity, labor)
  • Thomas Spence (Spensonia)
  • Filarete, Sforzinda
  • Galiani (after Vetruvius), "Ideal City"
  • Theodor Hertzka (Freeland)
  • Edward Bellamy (Looking Backwards)
  • W.H. Hudson (A Crystal Age)
  • Hutterites
  • Shakers
    • New Lebanon, New York
    • Hancock, New York
  • Mormons
    • City of Zion,
    • Nauvoo, Illinois
  • Greeley
  • Amana
  • Oneida
  • Hopedale Community, Massachusetts
  • Modern Times, Brentwood, New York
  • Llano Community
    • Newllano, Lousiana, 1934--
    • Llano del Rio
  • Robert Owen
    • New Lanark
    • New Harmony, 1825
  • Saint Simon
  • Fourier's
    • Phalanstery
    • Brook Farm (Ripley 1841)
    • Familistere (Godin 1859)
  • Cabet (Voyage en Icarie)
    • Icaria (Nauvoo), 1848--1879
    • Icaria-Speranza, 1879--1887
    • New Icaria, 1879--1895
  • Harmonists
    • New Harmony, Indiana, 1814--
    • Economy, Pennsylvania, 1824--
  • Ebeneezer Howard (To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Reform) (Garden Cities)
  • George Orwell
    • 1984
    • Animal Farm
  • Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)
  • H.G. Wells (A Modern Utopia)
  • B.F. Skinner (Walden Two)
  • Constant, New Babylon, 1959--1974
  • Jean-Luc Godard (Alphaville)
  • Jacque Fresco, The Venus Project, 1975-- (cf. Zeitgeist Movement)
  • Logan's Run, 1976
  • Auroville
  • The Farm
  • Yevgeny Zamyatin (We)
  • Benjamin Ward Richardson (Hygeia: A City of Health)
  • Le Corbusier (Radiant City, Plan Voisin)
  • Frank Lloyd Wright (Broadacre)
  • Ecovillages
    • Svanholm (DK)
    • Lebensgarten Ecovillage
    • Damanhur
    • Solborg Camphill Village
    • Snabegaard
    • Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement for Peace, Sri Lanka
    • Colufifa
    • Eco Yoff, Dakar, Senegal
    • Bija Vidyapeeth, Sri Lanka
    • Tlholego Ecovillage, South Africa
    • Unification Church (Puerto Leda, Paraguay)
  • Ernest Callenbach (Ecotopia), 1973
  • Paolo Solari, Arcosanti, Arizona, USA
  • Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Ufa-Fabrik, Berlin, Germany
  • Uzupio, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Cambridge Cohousing, Massachusetts, USA
  • Ecovillage at Ithaca, New York, USA
  • ZEGG, Belzig, Germany
  • Charles Caryl, New Era (Denver: n.p., 1897)
  • Gillette, The Human Drift
  • John Dewey, Great Community
  • Jurgen Habermas, Ideal speech situation
  • John Friedmann (The Good Society)
  • Auguste Comte (Western Republic)
  • Howell (Atruria)
  • Morris (News from Nowhere)
  • Butler (Erewhon)
  • Stead (Queendon in Central Africa)
  • (La cite Morellyste)
  • Erskine (Armata) [an entire planet]
  • Rabelais, Abbey of Theleme
  • Hewins (?)
  • Ruskin (?)
  • Nueva Germania (anti-Semetic Aryan utopia founded by Nietzsche's sister and her husband in Paraguay)
  • Nueva Australia (socialist utopia founded in Paraguay)
  • Albert Kimsey Owen (Topolobampo, Sinaloa, Mexico) (Lovell, "A Co-operative City and the Credit Foncier of Sinaloa")
  • Buckminster Fuller-inspired communes
    • The Family
    • Synergia
  • Libertarian utopias
    • The Citadel, a guntopia in rural Idaho
    • Independence Park, Glenn Beck's 2012 proposal
  • Contemporary films
    • Thin content (Note: This means that you should NOT select one of the films below for your paper.)
      • Gattaca (1997) -- Genetic science has advanced to point where babies can be genetically designed and as a consequence life chances are determined on the basis of genetic probabilities.

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