Disney World: Celebrating Utopia
Before she began writing for the New York Times, or visiting glitter factories and the Royal Wedding, Caity Weaver grew up vacationing in utopia. Specifically: Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. D...
15 Aug 201945min
Herland: Reimagine Utopia
What have all of the utopias we've covered so far had in common? They were all largely driven by the will and power of a charismatic leader - usually a man, usually white. How do you build a utopia, t...
18 Jul 201935min
Biosphere 2: The Theater of Utopia
In 1991, eight people embarked on a two-year experiment to create a completely enclosed, self-sustaining ecosystem in a domed research facility in Arizona. Inside the dome, there was a man-made savann...
11 Jul 201949min
Germania: Architecture in a Fascist Utopia
In 1938, Hitler’s chief architect Albert Speer started redesigning Berlin for a New Order, elements of which exist today. The Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin features designs that specifically evoke ...
27 Jun 201935min
Oneida: Utopia, LLC
The Oneida Community was founded in upstate New York in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes, a former theological student who believed that paradise could be found on Earth through nontraditional sexual and f...
20 Jun 201936min
Levittown/Concord Park: Utopia in Our Backyard
Suburban developments built in the 1950s were idyllic communities and gave many people their first opportunity at home ownership, but typically excluded African Americans. While William Levitt used ex...
13 Jun 201933min
Chandigarh: The Modernist Utopia
Following the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru commissioned famed architect Le Corbusier to design the city of Chandigarh, to signal India’s rise on the ...
6 Jun 201937min
Jamestown: Utopia for Whom
Most people today know the story of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, from the story of Pocahontas and John Smith, and especially from the 1995 Disney animated film. A grip...
30 Mai 201938min
