Urban Utopias: The Built and Social Architectures of Alternative Settlements

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Malcolm Miles, Urban Utopias: The built and social architectures of alternative settlements, London and New York, Routledge, 2008; pp256, £22.99 paperback.

You might think that urban utopias, utopias of any sort, would not today be very high on the ToDo list of anyone who is concerned with the immediate problems of poverty, homelessness, pollution, hunger, insecurity. But, if they're not, then they should be, and this book provides ample reason for considering them seriously and practically. The fortieth anniversary of the events of 1968 is a particularly auspicious time for turning to re-examine broad-scale efforts to make utopias relevant to today's struggles.

Malcolm …