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Moralising Space - The Utopian Urbanism of the British Positivists, 1855-1920 (Hardcover)
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Moralising Space - The Utopian Urbanism of the British Positivists, 1855-1920 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
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Amidst the soot, stink and splendour of Victorian London, a coterie
of citizen-sociologists set out to break up the British Empire.
They were the followers of the French philosopher Auguste Comte, a
controversial figure who introduced the modern science of sociology
and the republican Religion of Humanity. Moralising Space examines
how from the 1850s Comte's British followers practised this science
and religion with the aim to create a global network of 500 utopian
city-states. Curiously the British Positivists' work has never been
the focus of a full-length study on modern sociology and town
planning. In this intellectual history, Matthew Wilson shows that
through to the interwar period affiliates to the British Positivist
Society - Richard Congreve, Frederic Harrison, Charles Booth,
Patrick Geddes and Victor Branford - attempted to realise Comte's
vision. With scarcely used source material Wilson presents the
Positivists as an organised resistance to imperialism, industrial
exploitation, poverty and despondency. Much to the consternation of
the church, state and landed aristocracy they organised urban
interventions, led ad hoc sociological surveys and published
programmes for realising idyllic city-communities. Effectively this
book contributes to our understanding of how Positivism, as a
utopian spatial design praxis, heavily influenced twentieth-century
architecture and planning.
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