Utopian communities

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 133. Chapters: Oneida Community, Shakers, Ecovillage, Zion, Illinois, Harmony Society, Yellow Springs, Ohio, Enfield, Connecticut, New Harmony, Indiana, Fairhope, Alabama, Harvard, Massachusetts, Nauvoo, Illinois, Maryhill, Washington, Aurora, Oregon, Ruskin, Florida, Bethel, Missouri, Massillon, Ohio, Bishop Hill, Illinois, Ambridge, Pennsylvania, Zoar, Ohio, Harmony, Pennsylvania, New Llano, Louisiana, Nininger Township, Dakota County, Minnesota, Freeland, Washington, Utopia, Texas, Letchworth, Brook Farm, Oahspe: A New Bible, Findhorn Ecovillage, Amana Colonies, Rugby, Tennessee, Auroville, The Farm, Orania, Northern Cape, United Order, Icarians, New Lanark, Fruitlands, Welwyn Garden City, World Brotherhood Colonies, Home of Truth, Utah, Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans, Los Horcones, Twin Oaks Community, Virginia, Enfield, New Hampshire, Equality Colony, Social Democracy of America, Ephrata Cloister, Isaac N. Youngs, Narkomfin building, Brights Grove, Ontario, Oneida stirpiculture, Germantown Colony and Museum, Home, Washington, St Agnes Place, Tabarca, Ruskin Colony, Drop City, Byrdcliffe Colony, Ruskin, British Columbia, La Reunion, Arcosanti, New Australia, Nashoba Commune, Utopia, Ohio, Holberg, British Columbia, North American Phalanx, Koreshan Unity, Cyrus Teed, Alliance Colony, Fellowship Farm Cooperative Association, Sointula, British Columbia, Whiteway Colony, Burley, Washington, Clarion, Utah, Hopedale Community, Federation of Damanhur, Communities Directory, Roosevelt, New Jersey: Visions of Utopia, Living energy farm, Acorn Community, Octagon City, Alcott House, Padanaram Settlement, Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Ralahine, Meadeau View Institute, Temples of Humankind, Silkville, Kansas, Brithdir Mawr, Zihuatanejo Project, List of Finnish utopian communities, Orange Twin Conservation Community, Soul City, North Carolina, Community Place, Minnesota Experimental City, Schloss Elmau, Raritan Bay Union, Svanholm, Skaneateles Community, South Bay Phalanx, List of American Utopian communities, Hygeia, Community of the Ark, Synergia Ranch. Excerpt: Letchworth Garden City, commonly known as Letchworth, is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The town's name is taken from one of the three villages it surrounded (the other two being Willian and Norton) - all of which featured in the Domesday Book. The land used was first purchased by Quakers who had intended to farm the area and build a Quaker community. They very quickly discovered the soil to be chalky and of poor agricultural value. The Garden City was founded in 1903 by Ebenezer Howard, was one of the first new towns, and is the world's first Garden City designed to incorporate elements of the country, alongside city life. Its development inspired another Garden City project at Welwyn Garden City, as well as many other smaller projects worldwide (Canberra, the Australian capital, was influenced by its design concepts, as was Hellerau, Germany, small village of Tapanila, Finland, and Mezaparks, Latvia), and had great influence on future town planning and the New Towns movement. Today it has a population of around 33,600. Howard's depiction of the choice of town design as a contest between three magnets (select image for transcript)In 1898, the social reformer Ebenezer Howard wrote a book entitled To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (later republished as Garden Cities of To-morrow), in which he advocated the construction of a new kind o...