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 squa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lewis, Michael J., 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Utopias.
Collective settlements.
City planning > Social aspects.
City planning > Religious aspects.
ART > History > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
utopian literature.
utopias.
collective settlements.
Utopies.
Communautes.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The idea of the city of refuge
  • The sacred squareness of cities
  • The Protestant tempering of utopia
  • Christianopolis
  • The Lord's Grove
  • Harmony
  • Economy
  • Conclusion.

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