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Utopologies

David B Clarke, David Clarke

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Volume: 29, Issue: 6, Pages: 951 - 967

Swansea University Author: David Clarke

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DOI (Published version): 10.1068/d9210

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Against a backdrop of nostalgia for a lost utopia, the paper adopts the standpoint that utopia has been achieved. Yet its accomplishment serves only to place the utopian imaginary in question. The basic plotline concerns utopia’s entrapment behind the mirror, and the consequences that ensue from the...

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Published in: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
ISSN: 0263-7758 1472-3433
Published: Pion 2011
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