The Shape of Utopia – The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth–Century …
The Shape of UtopiaThe Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America\nAuthor(s): Irene Cheng\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9781517907457, 978-1517907457\nSynopsis\nHow nineteenth-century social reformers devised a new set of radical blueprints for society\n\n In the middle of the nineteenth century, a utopian impulse flourished in the United States through the circulation of architectural and urban plans predicated on geometrically distinct designs. Though the majority of such plans remained unrealized, The Shape of Utopia emphasizes the enduring importance of these radical propositions and their ability to visualize alternatives to what was then a newly emerging capitalist nation. \n\n Drawing diagrammatic plans for structures such as octagonal houses, a hexagonal anarchist city, and circular centers of equitable commerce, these various architectural utopians applied geometr.
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