City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning

by Michael J. Lewis

Book Overview

A fascinating exploration of the urbanism at the heart of Utopian thinking

The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning. In City of Refuge, Michael Lewis takes readers across centuries and continents to show how Utopian town planning produced a distinctive type of settlement characterized by its square plan, collective ownership of properties, and communal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691171815
• ISBN13: 9780691171814
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.4"