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Avery Trufelman explores stories of people who tried to design a better world — and what happens when those designs don’t go according to plan. Season one, Utopian, is about the perpetual search for the perfect place. From Curbed and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Introducing: Utopian
May 4th, 2019
Explore the hidden stories behind how we design the world we live in, and what we can learn when those designs fail. Season one, Utopian, follows …
Jamestown: Utopia for Whom
May 30th, 2019
Chandigarh: The Modernist Utopia
June 6th, 2019
Following the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru commissioned famed architect Le Corbusier to design the …
Levittown/Concord Park: Utopia in Our Backyard
June 13th, 2019
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 explicit racial …
Oneida: Utopia, LLC
June 20th, 2019
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 …
Germania: Architecture in a Fascist Utopia
June 27th, 2019
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 the Third Reich. …
Biosphere 2: The Theater of Utopia
July 11th, 2019
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 savannah. A rainforest. A …
Herland: Reimagine Utopia
July 18th, 2019
Disney World: Celebrating Utopia
August 15th, 2019
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. During a recent live …
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