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Michael J. Lewis

City of Refuge

Separatists and Utopian Town Planning

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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 dormitories. Some of these settlements were sanctuaries from religious persecution, like those of the German Rappites, French Huguenots, and American Shakers, while others were sanctuaries from the Industrial Revolution, like those imagined by Charles Fourier, Robert Owen, and other Utopian vision… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-691-17181-4
  • EAN: 9780691171814
  • Produktnummer: 19875848
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Masse: H19.3 cm x B35.1 cm x D2.3 cm 908 g
  • Abbildungen: 75 color + 75 b/w illus.
  • Gewicht: 908
  • Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor


Michael J. Lewis is the Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art History at Williams College. His books include Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind, The Gothic Revival, and American Art and Architecture. His essays and reviews have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

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