Brook Farm
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Brook Farm, also called the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education or the Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, was a utopian experiment in communal living in the United States
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George Ripley founded Brook Farm based on Transcendental ideals.
Brook Farm was reorganized to follow the work of Charles Fourier.
November 7, 1846, issue of The Harbinger, printed at Brook Farm
Phalanstère
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A phalanstère was a type of building designed for a self-contained utopian community, ideally consisting of 500–2,000 people working together for mutual benefit, and developed in the early 19th centur
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…The Harbinger as an unofficial journal promoting Fourierism. Following his vision, the community began building an ambitious structure called the Phalanstery. When the uninsured building burned down, the community was financially devastated and never recovered. It was fully closed by 1847. Despite the commune's…
Perspective view of the urban area of Fourier's Phalanstère. Rural area is not shown in the drawing.
North American Phalanx building in Monmouth County, New Jersey, inspired by Fourier's concept