City of refuge [electronic resource] : separatists and utopian town planning

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서명/저자사항	City of refuge: separatists and utopian town planning [electronic resource] / Michael J. Lewis.
개인저자	Lewis, Michael J., 1957- author.
발행사항	Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [2016].
형태사항	1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations, maps.
기타형태 저록	Print version: Lewis, Michael J., 1957- City of refuge. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016] 9780691171814
ISBN	9781400884315 1400884314
기타표준부호	10.1515/9781400884315doi
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	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.
요약	"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 visionaries. Because of their differences in ideology and theology, these settlements have traditionally been viewed separately, but Lewis shows how they are part of a continuous intellectual tradition that stretches from the early Protestant Reformation into modern times. Through close readings of architectural plans and archival documents, many previously unpublished, he shows the network of connections between these seemingly disparate Utopian settlements--including even such well-known town plans as those of New Haven and Philadelphia. The most remarkable aspect of the city of refuge is the inventive way it fused its eclectic sources, ranging from the encampments of the ancient Israelites as described in the Bible to the detailed social program of Thomas More's Utopia to modern thought about education, science, and technology. Delving into the historical evolution and antecedents of Utopian towns and cities, City of Refuge alters notions of what a Utopian community can and should be"--Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	SOCIAL SCIENCE --Essays. Collective settlements. City planning --Religious aspects. City planning --Social aspects. Utopias. City planning --Religious aspects. City planning --Social aspects. Collective settlements. Utopias. ART / History / General SOCIAL SCIENCE --Essays. City planning --Religious aspects. City planning --Social aspects. Collective settlements. Utopias.
분류기호(DDC)	307.77
언어	In English.
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