Book references for the Dreams of Progress philosophical debate
Here are the books that have been used to prepare the Dreams of Progress philosophical debate, centred around the themes of Utopia and Progress. Books and authors with an asterisk (*) can be borrowed for free at the Westminster Reference Library and other libraries of Westminster: http://www.westminster.gov.uk/libraries/.
- Utopia* by Thomas More*, 1518
- A house of memories* by Rev. Isaac Hartill*, 1900
- Brave New World* by Aldous Huxley*, 1932
- Atlas Shrugged* by Ayn Rand*, 1957
- Between Dystopia and Utopia* by Constantinos A. Doxiadis*, 1966
- Utopia on Trial – Vision and reality in planned housing* by Alice Coleman*, 1985
- Vinyl Leaves by Stephen M. Fjellman, 1992
- Excession by Ian Banks, 1996
- The Divided West by Jürgen Habermas*, 2004
- Dreams of Peace and Freedom by Jay Winter*, 2006
Also to read around the same subject:
- The Republic* by Plato*, 380 BC
- 1984* by George Orwell*, 1949
- Motopia, a study in the evolution of urban landscape* by G. A. Jellicoe*, 1961
- Utopia and apocalypse, a view of art in Germany 1910-1939*, 1977
- De Stijl 1917-1931: Visions of Utopia* by Hans Ludwig C. Jaffe*, 1982
- The great Russian utopia*, 1993
- Film Architecture: From “Metropolis” to “Blade Runner”* by Dietrich Neumann*, 1996
- Black mass : apocalyptic religion and the death of Utopia* by John Gray*, 2007
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Andy who attended the debate gave me this very interesting link of a documentary about utopias in virtual worlds: http://anotherperfectworld.submarine.nl/ , with 30 minutes on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxZP_ur_Tvo&fmt=22