![]() ![]() The article presents the impact of ideas contained in utopian conceptions of cities on the development of the urban-planning thought. Calling upon ancient Greek philosophic and literary traditions, as well as the biblical model of the Garden of Eden, Renaissance utopias would often describe imagined, isolated (or geographically confined) political or religious communities that possessed clear attributes of perfection. The term contains within itself an ambivalence of meanings that relate to its two possible rootsou-topos, meaning a nonexisting place, or simply no place and eu-topos, referring to a good place. This literary sensation gave rise to a philosophical and artistic genre that would flourish in the late Renaissance and Enlightenment, extending into nineteenthcentury ideologies, namely utopian socialism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002). ![]() ![]() ![]() The term Utopia in Renaissance philosophy originates from and refers to Thomas More's 1516 work: Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo reipublicae statu sive de nova insula Utopia ("A truly golden little book, no less beneficial than entertaining, of a republic's best state and of the new island Utopia") (More T. ![]()
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