In 2005, J.C. Hallman came across a scientific paper about "Pleistocene Rewilding," a peculiar idea from conservation biology that suggested repopulating bereft ecosystems with endangered 'megafauna'. The plan sounded utterly utopian, but Hallman liked the idea as much as the scientists did - perhaps because he had grown up on a street called Utopia Road in a master-planned community in Southern California. "Pleistocene Rewilding" rekindled in him a long-standing fascination with utopian ideas, and he went on to spend three weeks at the world's oldest 'intentional community,' sail on the first ship where it's possible to own 'real estate,' train at the world's largest civilian combat-school, and tour a GBP 30 billion megacity built from scratch on an artificial island off the coast of Korea. "In Utopia" explores the history of utopian literature and thought in the narrative context of the real-life fruits of that history.
- ISBN10 1466873027
- ISBN13 9781466873025
- Publish Date 10 June 2014 (first published 3 August 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint St. Martin's Press
- Format eBook
- Language English