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Utopia Week

Historic Pullman Center.

Chicago, Illinois

Pullman Historic District

First planned industrial community in the United States.

The New York Cosmos Are American Soccer’s Past. Are They Its Future?

A team that was once the most glamorous in the world is making its comeback.

Erik Shilling September 13, 2016

Aerial View with Plac Centralny at bottom center

Nowa Huta

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

The Bonkers Real-Life Plan to Drain the Mediterranean and Merge Africa and Europe

It's not just the plot of a Philip K. Dick book—a man spent his life trying to make Atlantropa happen.

Toon Lambrechts September 13, 2016

We Asked 32 Trekkies How They Would Create a Perfect Future

No one knows utopia like "Star Trek" fans.

Eric Grundhauser September 13, 2016

Futuro WeeGee Espoo

A Map of the Last Remaining Flying Saucer Homes

All the 1960s Futuro Houses left in the world.

Meg Neal September 13, 2016

This depicts the unearthing of the god's image from the anthill.

The Centuries-Old Shrine Where Indians Pray for U.S. Visas

It has a decent track record.

Michael Schulson September 13, 2016

The Illustrated Map of America's Worst Utopias

The road to weird food communes and sex cults is paved with good intentions.

Lauren Young September 12, 2016

There's a Tiny Utopia in the Middle of Queens

There is confusion over whether it even exists.

Atlas Obscura September 12, 2016

Cloquet, Minnesota

Frank Lloyd Wright Gas Station

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Archival view of the co-op general store in Arthurdale, WV

Arthurdale, West Virginia

Arthurdale Historic District

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.

Auroville

Bommayapalayam, India

Auroville

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

The Rise and Fall of Fruitopia, the Trippiest Beverage of the '90s

Wherefore art thou, Strawberry Passion Awareness?

Cara Giaimo September 12, 2016

"Vuel Villa" by Xul Solar

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Xul Solar Museum

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes.

Guadalupe, California

Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Star Wars-Inspired Conference Room

Verona, Wisconsin

Epic Campus

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.

Army drills in front of the Crown Hotel. Designed by W.C. Harris, architect, this was meant to be the working man's hotel. It was less luxurious but still far above most hotels of the day. In 1916 the 185th Battalion was stationed at Broughton. The town had been deserted, but had fine quarters for the military: officers and the hospital were in the Broughton Arms; the non-commisioned officers at The Crown Hotel; and the enlisted men in the forty-three cottages that had been built for miners.

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

Broughton, Nova Scotia

The remains of an attempt to carve a thriving metropolis from the forest, and once home to the first revolving door in North America.

These Utopian City Maps Have Influenced Urban Planners for Over a Century

Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities are now embedded into London and New York.

Sarah Laskow September 12, 2016