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The shape of utopia : the architecture of radical reform in nineteenth-century America /

"The Shape of Utopia documents a pivotal moment in American history when ordinary people ardently believed in the potential to reshape society. Highlighting the inherent political capacity of architecture, Irene Cheng showcases how visionary utopian planners in the mid-nineteenth century used t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cheng, Irene (Irene Chun-I) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]
Colección:Buell Center books in the history and theory of American architecture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: The Visual Rhetoric of Reform -- Chapter 1. Antinomies of American Utopia: Thomas Jefferson's Grids and Octagons -- Chapter 2. The Visual Rhetoric of Equality: The Land Reformers' Grid -- Chapter 3. Cultivating the Liberal Self: Orson Fowler's Octagon House -- Chapter 4. Picturing Sociality without Socialism: The Kansas Vegetarian Octagon Colony -- Chapter 5. Toward More Transparent Representation: The Hexagonal "Anarchist" City of Josiah Warren 
505 0 |a Chapter 6: Models, Machines, and Manifestations: The Spiritualists' Circular Utopias -- Epilogue: The Afterlife of Geometric Utopianism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author 
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