Thomas More UTOPIA
An imaginary island
described in sir Thomas mores utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law,
politics, etc. He essentially didn’t believe in change, he wanted to create an
ideal place with no government control. The majority of the population would be
in the city, which is the center followed by its surrounding countryside. It is
based off a rectangular based plan similar to the roman urban planning. sir More knew
what poor living conditions was like with no sunlight, bad hygiene and narrow
streets. He was very generous when he was designing the ideal city. It had a
lot of space, so much that you cannot walk to your closest neighbor’s house. It
was 54 cities in total with no more than 6000 families per city. It is a place
where there is a barrier between what is playful or serious, function and
reality. It stretches utopia from all sides and also creates a thin line
between the thought of experience and dwells to live on. Thus utopia was more
less a fantasy land which celebrated old fashioned ideal community or a futuristic
world where machines do all the work. This ideal wasn’t only for the rich for
once but also for the working class and peasants.
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