International in scope with a focus on everyday life and governance issues, Miles's innovative book looks at today's efforts to build a new society, exploring detailed case analyses within a wide theoretical and cross disciplinary framework.

Malcolm Miles is Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Plymouth, UK, where he convenes the Critical Spaces Research Group and coordinates a research methods programme for the Faculty of Arts.

Introduction Part 1: Histories and Theories 1. Imagining Places: Literary Utopias and the Far-Away 2. Drawing Lines: Modernity as Utopia 3. Planning Harmony: Fourier and Utopian Socialism Part 2: Practices 4. New Cities 5. Social Utopias 6. Ecotopias: Frameworks 7. Ecotopias: Practices Part 3: Horizons 8. Mud-Brick Utopias 9. A Barefoot Society Part 4: Short Case Studies Case 1: Economy, Pennsylvania, USA Case 2: Arcosanti, Arizona, USA Case 3: Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India Case 4: Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark Case 5: Ufa-fabrik, Berlin, Germany Case 6: Uzupio, Vilnius, Lithuania Case 7: Cambridge Co-Housing, Massachusetts, USA Case 8: Ecovillage at Ithaca, New York State, USA Case 9: Z.E.G.G, Belzig, Germany. Conclusion