"Appendix. Edilia, or 'Make of it what you will'"

2000 Harvey, David [W.] (b. 1933). “Appendix. Edilia, or ‘Make of it what you will’.” In his Spaces of Hope (Edinburgh, Scot.: Edinburgh University Press, 2000), 257-81. U.S. ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 257-81. PSt

Appendix to his book on the power of the utopian imagination in which he sketches out his own utopian vision. The collapse of the world economy is followed by a period of harsh repression by the military and a revolution. After the revolution a eutopian society is created centered on a federal system that begins at the “hearth” or a small collective living arrangement. Environmentally conscious but using new technologies where possible. For a design research project inspired by Edilia, see Ifea Troiani, “Eco-topia: ‘Living with Nature’ in Edilia, Iceland.” Illus. Journal of Architectural Education 67.1 (2013): 96-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2013.767129. The author was born in England where he got his doctorate in Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. He has taught in England and the U.S. where he is currently a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the City of University of New York.