The Cadbury family moved their fledgling chocolate firm out of Birmingham's slums to the utopia of Bournville in the 19th century.
He demands and directs change, compelling his companions to act, railing against hopelessness and disenchantment, against any allegiance to utopia.
That a vision of an organic agrarian-manufacturing utopia is elaborated in a large and dynamic industrial city seems, on the face of it, absurd.
These link utopias with heterotopias in ways which 'also bind people to particular identities, and to the political/practical consequences that they entail' (p. 172).
The analysis of women's work, of radical communal utopias, and of body metaphors severely limit the range of buildings that can be discussed.
Like all utopias, the future was intimately linked to the hopes and fears of the present.