Seven American Utopias Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790-1975

Name: Seven American Utopias
Author: Dolores Hayden

Auteur: Dolores Hayden

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Dolores Hayden D Hayden

Co-auteur: Dolores Hayden

Engels
Hardcover
9780262080828
01 september 1976
401 pagina's

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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.At the heart of the book are studies of seven communitarian groups, collectively stretching over nearly two centuries and the full breadth of the American continent-the Shakers of Hancock, Massachusetts; the Mormons of Nauvoo, lllinois; the Fourierists of Phalanx, New Jersey; the Perfectionists of Oneida, New York; the Inspirationists of Amana, Iowa; the Union Colonists of Greeley, Colorado; and the Cooperative Colonists of Llano del Rio, California. Hayden examines each of these groups to see how they coped with three dilemmas that all socialist' societies face: conflicts betweeft authoritarian and participatory processes, between communal and private territory, and between unique and replicable community plans.The book contains over 260 historic and contemporary photographs and drawings which illustrate the communitarian processes of design and building. The drawings range in scale from regional plans showing land ownership, access to transportation, and availability of natural resources, through site plans of communal domains and building plans of dwellings and assembly halls, down to detailed diagrams of furniture configurations. To aid readers in making comparisons, a series of site and building plans drawn at constant scales has been provided for all seven case studies.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 september 1976
Aantal pagina's: 401
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Dolores Hayden
Tweede Auteur: D Hayden
Co Auteur: Dolores Hayden
Hoofduitgeverij: Mit Press Ltd

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Editie: New ed
Product breedte: 222 mm
Product hoogte: 19 mm
Product lengte: 279 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 170 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 19 mm
Verpakking lengte: 250 mm

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EAN: 9780262080828

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Taal: Engels
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