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Contemporary Peace Research: From Utopia To Feasibility, William O. Peterfi
Contemporary Peace Research: From Utopia To Feasibility, William O. Peterfi
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
This paper proposes to bring into focus some major problems confronting the discipline of peace politics. There appears to be an urgent need for systematic analysis of the many diverse areas and approaches currently lumped together in the general scope of so-called peace research.
New Towns As Laboratories Of Democracy: Early American And British Experience, Robert A. Barrett
New Towns As Laboratories Of Democracy: Early American And British Experience, Robert A. Barrett
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
New Towns have received attention as significant fields for study of urban systems and urban problems. Their early development in Great Britain and more recent development in the United States is a subject of public and private interest, yet little attention has been directed to their potential for improving the urban democratic process as well as dealing with housing, transportation, employment, planning, recreation, and other urban systems. This paper examines the potential of New Towns with reference to British experiences in improving urban democratic systems.
Utopian Communalism: A Comparison Of 19th And 20th Century Phenomena In The United States, Truman David Wood
Utopian Communalism: A Comparison Of 19th And 20th Century Phenomena In The United States, Truman David Wood
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
The utopian communal phenomenon has been present in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The longevity of various religious and secular utopian communal experiments is examined in terms of four organizational factors and the twentieth century communes are considered in terms of four ideals. The main stream of American society has assimilated nothing from these utopian communal experiments.