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University City (sometimes University Area or U-City) is an edge city mostly within the city limits of Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, surrounding the University of North Carolina at Charlotte campus. It is found in northeastern Mecklenburg County, southeast of Interstate 85 and predominantly along University City Boulevard (NC 49 ...
A wide range of American communities across US history were founded with the intent of achieving a utopian community, several of which are still active into the present day.
Herland. (novel) Herland is a 1915 feminist utopian novel from 1915, written by American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who bear children without men (parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination.
The University Place collection of mostly vacant parcels has been in limbo for redevelopment to senior housing dating back at least to 2014.
Telosa is a proposed utopian planned US city conceived by American billionaire Marc Lore and announced in September 2021. [1][2] The project has a target population of 5 million people by 2050, with the first phase of construction expected to house 50,000. The location had initially not been chosen, with the project's planners intending the city to be built on cheap land in Appalachia or the ...
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte, or simply Charlotte) is a public research university in Charlotte, North Carolina. UNC Charlotte offers 24 doctoral, 66 master's, and 79 bachelor's degree programs through nine colleges. [ 6 ] It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".
Soul City is a community in Warren County, North Carolina, United States. It was a planned community first proposed in 1969 by Floyd McKissick, [1] a civil rights leader and director of the Congress of Racial Equality. Funded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Soul City was one of thirteen model city projects ...
Contents. Utopian thinking. Utopia denotes an imagined ideal society that, though nonexistent in reality, is envisioned as a perfect habitat for its members. [ 1 ] The term gained widespread usage following the publication of Thomas More 's 1516 book Utopia. [ 2 ] Building upon the work of sociologist Ruth Levitas, [ 1 ] social psychologists ...