Urban Utopias The Built and Social Architectures of Alternative Settlements 1st Edition by Malcolm Miles ISBN 9781134185740 113418574X
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ISBN 10: 9781134185740
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Author: Malcolm Miles
Urban Utopias: The Built and Social Architectures of Alternative Settlements (1st Edition) by Malcolm Miles is an exploration of alternative urban living and the idea of utopian settlements. The book examines how urban spaces, both physically and socially, can be reimagined to create better living environments. Miles explores various examples of alternative settlements, focusing on how their architecture and social structures provide different ways of organizing life in cities.
The book addresses both the built environment (architecture and design) and social relations within these alternative communities. It covers movements, ideologies, and experiments from the past and present that challenge traditional urban living norms. Through this, it highlights the ways in which architecture, urban planning, and social practices intersect to create environments that aim to be more sustainable, equitable, and human-centered.
Urban Utopias The Built and Social Architectures of Alternative Settlements 1st Table of contents:
Part One Histories and theories
1 Imagining places
Introduction
Insurrections
Context – the modern subject
Stories in stories
Antwerp
The island of Utopia
Re-reading More
Campanella’s text
From New Atlantis to the noble savage
Literary utopianism
2 Drawing lines
Introduction
Confidence and lack of certainty
Derivation of Descartes’ architectural metaphor
Drawing the city
Drawing a line
Drawing a line reconsidered
Purge and erasure: urban cleansing and clearances
Modern Utopias
Radical settlement in the English Revolution
3 Planning harmony
Introduction
Fourier – background
Fourier’s theories
The phalanstery
The passions
Owenite communities
The Charterville allotments
Utopia as fiction or programme?
Part Two Practices
4 New cities
Introduction
The northern extension of Barcelona
Garden City
Le Corbusier
Making new
BedZED
5 Social Utopias
Introduction
If you go to San Francisco …
Revolution by other means?
After the Summer of Love
Tribes
6 Ecotopias
Introduction
Grassroots resistance
Liberation ecologies
Greening everyday life
Counter-affluence
The World Social Forum
Deep ecology
Environments and environmentalisms
Green knowledges
7 Ecotopias
Activism
Earth First!
Reclaiming streets
Tribes
Ecovillages
Intentionality, community, ecology
Back to the land
Crystal Waters
Built and social architectures
Part Three Horizons
8 Mud-brick Utopias
Introduction
Pasts and futures
National culture
A romantic rural idyll?
New Gourna
New Gourna today
New Baris
A housing revolution?
An other Modernism?
Doshi and enablement
9 A barefoot society
Introduction
SWRC and the Barefoot approach
Gandhian principles
Water harvesting and solar power
Communications and rights to information
Health care and night schools
Abjection and Utopia?
Empowerment and voluntary simplicity
Coventry Peace House
Part Four 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 Cohousing, Massachusetts, USA
Case 8 Ecovillage at Ithaca, New York State, USA
Case 9 ZEGG (Centre for Experimental Culture Design), Belzig, Germany
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