Utopian England
Subtitle: Community Experiments 1900-1945 (Studies in History, Planning, and the Environment)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 20, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780419246602
Subjects: British & Irish history: from c 1900 -; Rural communities; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; 20th century; Community; Utopias; Social Science; Architecture; Sociology; England; Planning; Sociology - General; Architecture / General; History & Theory - General; Collective settlements; History
First sentence: The idea of creating the perfect place on earth, perhaps in a corner of England, was certainly not new at the start of the twentieth century, and in the first part of this chapter the reader is offered a glimpse of this earlier experience.