TY - ABST T1 - “The Blossoming” Y1 - 2024 A1 - Guglielmo Miccolupi A1 - Laura C. Zanetti-Domingues KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future Italy and focuses on a young man trying to decide his future in a society where “The Universal Basics, things like guaranteed housing, health care, education, and food, ensure that everyone has a good, dignified life no matter whether they can work at all.”

JF - Grist/Imagine 2000 2024 UR - https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-the-imperfect-blue-marble/ U2 -

Illus. Stefan Grosse Halbuer

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Strength of the Willow” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Commando Jugendstil A1 - Tales from the EV Studio ED - Phoebe Wagner KW - Italian author AB -

The story is about the creation of a eutopian city against the opposition of the city leaders and those with money. It begins with a woman who had been hired by the city to develop a neighborhood allotment discovering that it had been trashed overnight, with all the plants ripped out, the tools destroyed, and everything the community had built torn down. The city and investors had plans to build a profit making enterprise in its place, but the neighborhood rallied and reestablished the allotment and then worked with other neighborhoods to take over every other possible space and created other allotments, parks, playgrounds, and other community spaces.

JF - Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales PB - Android Press CY - Eugene, OR SN - 978-1-958121313 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Singer of Seeds” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Leda Baöl KW - Dutch author KW - Female author KW - Italian author AB -

The story is set in a future that is still recovering from earlier environmental devastation and is about a coming-of-age ceremony designed to ensure that future generations carry on the regeneration. The story is one of two XR WORDSMITHS’ Top Picks.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://www.solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/green-witch/ N1 -

Rpt. Illus. Mori in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 30 (Spring 2022): 100-07.

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Illus. Mori

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Solarpunk Cities: Notes for a Manifesto” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Commando Jugendstil KW - Italian author AB -

Eight points for a manifesto describing a eutopian solarpunk city plus explanation and a list of “Further Reading and Inspiration” (241-42). 

JF - Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - New York VL - 4 SN - 978-09989252-6-4 UR - https://reckoning.press/solarpunk-cities-notes-for-a-manifesto/ N1 -

Also published online with colored illus. at https://reckoning.press/solarpunk-cities-notes-for-a-manifesto/ (July 1, 2020).

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Illus. Online with colored illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Viam Inveniemus Aut Faciemus” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tales from the EV Studio A1 - Commando Jugendstil ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Italian author AB -

The story is about the struggle to get through a blizzard to repair the failing electrical system in a refugee village set in a period of extreme climate change combined with a growing refugee crisis and government inaction. 

JF - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 9781732254688 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Playmentalities” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Alberto Vanolo ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Maureen Shannon KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

The first part is fiction about a boy in a city that uses “civic games” through Playstation to teach good citizenship and uses the scores attained throughout life to award or punish its citizens. The second part is an essay on the current status of such programs.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Floating Hospital B-44” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tomaso Vimercati ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia about a plague and how it may be transmitted

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

NjP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eating the Moon Y1 - 2017 A1 - Mark David Campbell KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

A complex novel that includes a period in a gay male flawed utopia. 

PB - DSP Publications CY - Tallahassee, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lost in sun and silence: The Golden Age of Communications" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Vincenzo Palermo KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. In a world of constant connectivity, a man tries to escape to silence.

JF - Nature VL - 457.7233 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Il Pianeta come festival--The Planet as a Festival" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Ettore Sottsass Jr. (1917-2007) KW - Italian author AB -

Short, illustrated sketch of a world with no production problems. The cities have disappeared, and everyone is an artisan-artist.

JF - Casabella VL - no. 365 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ultimo: An imaginative narration of life under the earth with projections by John Vassos and text by Ruth Vassos Y1 - 1930 A1 - John Vassos (1898-1985) A1 - Ruth Vassos (1896?-1965) KW - Female author KW - Italian author KW - Male author KW - Romanian author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. A new ice age forces people to develop a new society underground where the heat of the earth's core is balanced by the ice above. Almost all travel stops, and there is no communication among cities. Industry, which is mostly for the production of food, is separate from housing. The little work needed is distributed equally. No money. Population kept balanced. No marriage. No crime. Unrest results from the monotony of life and rules become necessary.

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York U2 -

Heavily illustrated.

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MoU-St, NcD, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ideal City Y1 - 1903 A1 - Cosimo Noto M.D. (b. 1871?) KW - Italian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia set in New Orleans with a major emphasis on health and medical care. U.S. and Europe united.

PB - Author CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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DLC, MoU-St, PSt, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perpetual Peace to the Machine by the Universal Millennium, or The Sovereign Bankocracy, and the Grand Social Ledger of Mankind Y1 - 1855 A1 - Baron Joseph Corvaja (1785-1860) KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

A series of letters to Robert Owen (1771-1858) that presents a eutopia in which reform of the savings banks will make more money available to the community.

PB - Author CY - London U5 -

LSE

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