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Economic development --- Social mobility --- Enterprise zones --- Community development --- Public housing --- Small business --- Economic aspects --- Statistics. --- Model City (Miami, Fla.) --- Miami-Dade County (Fla.) --- Florida --- Economic conditions

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How does an urban community come to terms with the loss of its future? The former socialist model city of Hoyerswerda is an extreme case of a declining postindustrial city. Built to serve the GDR coal industry, it lost over half its population to outmigration after German reunification and the coal industry crisis, leading to the large-scale deconstruction of its cityscape. This book tells the story of its inhabitants, now forced to reconsider their futures. Building on recent theoretical work, it advances a new anthropological approach to time, allowing us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost.

Deindustrialization --- Coal trade --- Hoyerswerda (Germany) --- Social conditions. --- anthropological approach. --- anthropology. --- career. --- citizens. --- city life. --- coal industry. --- contemporary. --- cultural. --- decline. --- engaging. --- german history. --- german reunification. --- historical. --- history of anthropology. --- history of germany. --- hoyerswerda. --- human condition. --- industry. --- lifetime. --- outmigration. --- political science. --- politics. --- postindustrial era. --- postindustrial. --- retrospective. --- social issues. --- social science. --- socialist model city. --- socialist model. --- sociology. --- urban community. --- urban sociology.

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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.

Utopias. --- City planning --- City planning --- Collective settlements. --- Social aspects. --- Religious aspects. --- Bible. --- Black Forest. --- Count Nicholas Zinzendorf. --- Duke of Wrttemberg. --- Economy. --- Freudenstadt. --- Friedrich I. --- GermanЁmerican architecture. --- Harmonists. --- Heinrich Schickhardt. --- Herrnhaag. --- Industrial Revolution. --- Johann Georg Rapp. --- Moravian Church. --- New Harmony. --- New Jerusalem. --- Pennsylvania. --- Protestants. --- Robert Owen. --- Thomas More. --- Unity of the Brethren. --- Utopia. --- Utopian community. --- Utopian town planning. --- Western world. --- city of joy. --- city of refuge. --- collective ownership. --- communal dormitory. --- ideal society. --- industrial capitalism. --- model city. --- modernity. --- physical isolation. --- refugee settlement. --- religions refugees. --- religious expression. --- religious refugees. --- sanctuary. --- settlement. --- social cohesion. --- social homogeneity. --- socialism. --- squareness. --- town planning.